I’ve been to Oculus a few times to do book signings and things there, and they tell me ‘Ready Player One’ is, like, required reading for new employees. Ernest Cline Read Quote
I notice when I’m at a party where I don’t know anybody – even if I have nothing in common with somebody – we can still talk because we were raised by the same TV and cartoons and movies. Ernest Cline Read Quote
Personally, I’m kind of swirling in this hurricane of virtual reality because of ‘Ready Player One.’ Ernest Cline Read Quote
Gibson wrote ‘Neuromancer’ on a typewriter, you know, before the technology he was writing about existed. Ernest Cline Read Quote
Now, a lot of early VR worlds or universes that are coming online take inspiration from ‘Ready Player One.’ It’s just the coolest thing ever. Ernest Cline Read Quote
Fanboys’ was the first real screenplay that I ever wrote that was an original story with my own characters. Ernest Cline Read Quote
I still tell people, ‘I’m pretty sure I’m the only ‘Star Wars’ fan in history to ever break into Skywalker Ranch by writing a movie about breaking into Skywalker Ranch.’ Ernest Cline Read Quote
In a book, you can describe a scene and have any song you want playing on the radio and have any painting you want hanging on the wall. That was really freeing to me when I was writing ‘Ready Player One.’ I could throw in everything that I love. Ernest Cline Read Quote
In a zombie apocalypse movie, nobody’s ever seen a zombie movie. Or in an alien invasion movie, nobody has ever seen an alien invasion movie, like ‘Independence Day.’ Ernest Cline Read Quote
