I was standing on the shoulders of other science fiction writers like William Gibson, who had written ‘Neuromancer’ on a typewriter before home computers even really existed, and Neal Stephenson who wrote ‘Snow Crash’ in the early ’90s and imagined an online virtual world before the birth of the modern Internet. Ernest Cline Read Quote
When you’re hanging out with your friends, you reference books and movies, and you don’t always know if your friends know what you’re referencing. But you throw it out there, and if it connects, it makes people laugh. Ernest Cline Read Quote
It’s weird that, in a way, by writing about video games, I get to develop them, too. Ernest Cline Read Quote
I have such a vivid memory of seeing science fiction movies and going to the lobby and playing whatever the space games were, and imagine I was blowing up the Death Star. Ernest Cline Read Quote
I love stories like ‘The Terminator’ movies and ‘The Matrix,’ where our machines become self-aware and turn on us. Ernest Cline Read Quote
What’s really astounding to me is a lot of the guys at Oculus VR and other companies who were creating VR tell me that ‘Ready Player One’ is one of their primary inspirations in getting into virtual reality. Ernest Cline Read Quote
I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80. Ernest Cline Read Quote
I noticed in the late 1990s that my friends and I were already nostalgic for the 1980s, and by the turn of the century, VH1’s ‘I Love the ’80s’ gave all of us an accelerated nostalgia for our generation. Ernest Cline Read Quote
I’ve wanted to own a DeLorean since I was 10 years old, but it always seemed like a silly daydream. Like owning the ‘A-Team’ van or something. Ernest Cline Read Quote
