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
overrated
Going outside is highly overrated.
kings writing ends
I've heard Stephen King say that when you write a novel you end up revealing everything about yourself.
challenges quests tests
Continue your quest by taking the test. Yes, but what test? What test was I supposed to take? The Kobayashi Maru? The Pepsi Challenge? Could the clue have been any more vague?
horse kings bird
Very well! he said. You shall prove your worth by facing me in a joust! I'd never heard of an undead lich king challenging someone to a joust. Especially not in a subterranean burial chamber. All right, I said uncertainly. But won't we be needing horses for that? Not horses, he replied, stepping away from his throne. Birds.
skin-color years two
As we continued to talk, going through the motions of getting to know each other, I realized that we already did know each other, as well as any two people could. We’d known each other for years, in the most intimate way possible. We’d connected on a purely mental level. I understood her, trusted her, and loved her as a dear friend. None of that had changed, or could be changed by anything as inconsequential as her gender, or skin color, or sexual orientation.
being-human videogame bearable
Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.
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.
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.
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.
self-esteem guy champion
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.
daughter hypocrite thinking
I've retroactively made all that wasted time rotting my brain into research. It makes me a hypocrite when I try to tell my own daughter, "I don't know, I think we've played a little too much Mario."
spent until
I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80.
became began call compelling farms games giant life mine online people played playing saw surrounded tech time video worked
Before I became a full-time writer, I worked in tech support in those giant cubicle farms you see. I was surrounded by people who played video games all the time - sometimes actually in the call centers, playing online multiplayer games. I saw friends of mine who began to feel that going online was more compelling to them than real life.