Ernest Cline

“Screw you, Aech! And your dead grandma!”

— Ernest Cline

“Cats with a serious marble deficiency.”

— Ernest Cline

“H-h-hey there, compadre!”

— Ernest Cline

One person can keep a secret, but not two.

— Ernest Cline

“We’d connected on a purely mental level.”

— Ernest Cline

Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand.

— Ernest Cline

A river of words flowed between us.

— Ernest Cline

“L33t Haxorz Warezhaus,”

— Ernest Cline

“You know: “dogs and cats living together … mass hysteria!”

— Ernest Cline

It is on!" Aech shouted into his comlink. "it is on like Red Dawn!

— Ernest Cline

“I was just another sad, lost, lonely soul, wasting his life on a glorified videogame.”

— Ernest Cline

“The sight suddenly drove home the fantastic isolation of the place.”

— Ernest Cline

As far as my house, I have a ton of video games and three or four old consoles.

— Ernest Cline

“The rest of the trailer reeked of cat piss and abject poverty.”

— Ernest Cline

“People who live in glass houses should shut the fuck up.”

— Ernest Cline

“Ha lehetőséged van a boldogságra a valóságban, akkor élj vele.”

— Ernest Cline

“For me, growing up as a human being on the planet Earth in the twenty-first century was a real kick in the…

— Ernest Cline

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,…

— Ernest Cline

I've wanted to own a DeLorean since I was 10 years old, but it always seemed like a silly daydream. Like owning…

— Ernest Cline

Lights," I said softly. This had become my favorite word over the past week. In my mind, it had become synonymous with…

— Ernest Cline

“Goddammit!” he shouted. “Well, what am I supposed to do with it now?” “You could shove it up your ass and pretend…

— Ernest Cline

Virtual sex, no matter how realistic, was really nothing but glorified, computer-assisted masturbation.

— Ernest Cline

“So I'm supposed to believe you're one of those mythical guys who only cares about a woman's personality, and not about the…

— Ernest Cline

You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here…

— Ernest Cline

“Kurt Vonnegut. Neal Stephenson. Richard K. Morgan. Stephen King. Orson Scott Card. Terry Pratchett. Terry Brooks. Bester, Bradbury, Haldeman, Heinlein, Tolkien, Vance,…

— Ernest Cline

When you're hanging out with your friends, you reference books and movies, and you don't always know if your friends know what…

— Ernest Cline

“Morrow […] felt that OASIS had evolved into something horrible. ”It had become a self-imposed prison for humanity. A pleasant place for…

— Ernest Cline

I've retroactively made all that wasted time rotting my brain into research. It makes me a hypocrite when I try to tell…

— Ernest Cline

Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star. One of over a hundred billion in…

— Ernest Cline

I feel like I was hit by all of geek culture at once while I was growing up in the '70s and…

— Ernest Cline

I was just starting out, trying to become a screenwriter, and I became the Austin slam champion three times. For a nerdy,…

— Ernest Cline

I created the OASIS because I never felt at home in the real world. I didn't know how to connect with the…

— Ernest Cline

I was a painfully shy, awkward kid, with low self-esteem and almost no social skills. Online, I didn't have a problem talking…

— Ernest Cline

“Azért hoztam létre az OASIS-t, mert soha nem találtam a helyem a valóságban. Nem tudtam, hogyan teremtsek kapcsolatot az emberekkel. Egész életemben…

— Ernest Cline

“Not trusting my instincts any further, I loaded up a piece of high-end avatar dance software called Travoltra, which I’d downloaded and…

— Ernest Cline

“What happens when you die? Well, we're not completely sure. But the evidence seems to suggest that nothing happens. You're just dead,…

— Ernest Cline

“Careful analysis of this scene reveals that all of the teenagers behind Halliday are actually extras from various John Hughes teen films…

— Ernest Cline

“I would argue that masturbation is the human animal's most important adaptation. The very cornerstone of our technological civilization. Our hands evolved…

— Ernest Cline

“Standing there, under the bleak fluorescents of my tiny one-room apartment, there was no escaping the truth. In real life, I was…

— Ernest Cline

“The hour or so after I woke up was my least favorite part of each day, because I spent it in the…

— Ernest Cline