Ernest Cline Quotes

Gibson wrote ‘Neuromancer’ on a typewriter, you know, before the technology he was writing about existed.

I don’t even think I was quite a year old. My mother was maybe seven months pregnant with my little brother. I was sucked out of her arms, and she landed 75 yards away from our trailer and had a ruptured disc. The tornado set me down on top of this pile of corrugated lumber and scrap metal.

VR really changes everything for flight because the old simulators for the PC were 2D, and you couldn’t look around inside the cockpit and learn the controls or even track other planes through the cockpit.

‘Fanboys’ was the first real screenplay that I ever wrote that was an original story with my own characters.

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.’

Personally, I’m kind of swirling in this hurricane of virtual reality because of ‘Ready Player One.’

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.

I was just starting out, trying to become a screenwriter, and I became the Austin slam champion three times. For a nerdy, kind of a socially awkward guy, that did wonders for my self esteem.

I was 7 years old when the ’80s began and 17 years old when they ended, so it was an incredibly formative decade for me.

Growing up in rural Ohio, I knew my way around a double-wide pretty well.

I don’t know if the ’80s were unique, but we certainly got original, groundbreaking stuff at the time with movies like ‘Back to the Future‘ and ‘Star Wars’ – movies that became classics.

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.

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.

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.

I’m surprised that VR has come about so quickly. It’s lucky I just happened to write a book imagining virtual reality right on the cusp of it actually happening.

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.

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.’

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.

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.

Everything you could ever want to happen happened to me when ‘Ready Player One’ came out.