Ernest Cline
Ernest Cline
Ernest Christy Clineis an American novelist, spoken-word artist, and screenwriter. He is mostly famous for his novels Ready Player One and Armada; He also co-wrote the screenplay of Ready Player One's upcoming film adaptation by Steven Spielberg...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth17 September 1972
CityAshland, OH
CountryUnited States of America
team silly years
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.
thinking gears culture
I'm incredibly nostalgic for the '80s, because I think that's when Geek Culture really kicked in to high gear.
dragons games office
My favorite video game of all time is called 'Black Tiger'. It's a Capcom Dungeons and Dragons game from 1987. I have the actual arcade version sitting in my office.
school college president
I've been invited to speak at about 20 colleges. There's always this moment when I'm having dinner with the college president: 'Ernie, where'd you go to school?'
world done world-of-warcraft
I have to avoid things like 'World of Warcraft' or 'Minecraft', otherwise I'd never get any work done.
sexy evil guy
I have a thing for evil bald bad guys. The Kurgan is too sexy.
party cartoon tvs
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.
moving simple player
If I was feeling depressed or frustrated about my lot in life, all I had to do was tap the Player One button, and my worries would instantly slip away as my mind focused itself on the relentless pixelated onslaught on the screen in front of me. There, inside the game's two-dimensional universe, life was simple: It's just you against the machine. Move with your left hand, shoot with your right, and try to stay alive as long as possible.
our-generation generations nostalgia
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.
kids games decided
I've never really collected anything other than old Atari cartridges. I only had, like, 12 Atari games as a kid, so at some point in my 20s I decided I was going to own all of them.
stars home reality
...now that everyone could vote from home, via the OASIS, the only people who could get elected were movie stars, reality TV personalities, or radical televangelists.
cute girl ukulele
I watched a lot of YouTube videos of cute geeky girls playing '80s cover tunes on ukuleles. Technically, this wasn't part of my research, but I had a serious cute-geeky-girls-playing-ukuleles fetish that I can neither explain nor defend.
book hands people
It's so much better to hand over a finished book than having all these people waiting.
black three rotten
For one quarter, Black Tiger lets me escape from my rotten existence for three glorious hours. Pretty good deal.