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
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.
teenage acne looks
I’d designed my avatar’s face and body to look, more or less, like my own. My avatar had a slightly smaller nose than me, and he was taller. And thinner. And more muscular. And he didn’t have any teenage acne. But aside from these minor details, we looked more or less identical.
two secret persons
One person can keep a secret, but not two.
writing talking voice
I wanted to be able to write in the voice that I talk to my friends and assume that everybody would know what I was talking about.
healing past light
Lights," I said softly. This had become my favorite word over the past week. In my mind, it had become synonymous with freedom.
rivers
A river of words flowed between us.
eagles iron python
Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand. You might make an obscure reference to Monty Python or Iron Eagle that only some people will get, but if they do it conveys a world of meaning.
favorite-words games two
I burned through all of my extra lives in a matter of minutes, and my two least-favorite words appeared on the screen: GAME OVER.
looks born
You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here on out.
red dawn red-dawn
It is on!" Aech shouted into his comlink. "it is on like Red Dawn!
wonder easy humans
You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is.
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.
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.