Ernest Cline

“Halliday’s favorites, like WarGames, Ghostbusters, Real Genius, Better Off Dead, or Revenge of the Nerds”

— Ernest Cline

“Ray seemed to subsist primarily on a diet of high-fructose junk food and old videogames. It was hard not to love the…

— Ernest Cline

“Besides, what if BSG and Firefly took place in the same universe? You ever consider that?” I”

— Ernest Cline

My characters are all kind of geek archetypes of people I've encountered at gaming and comic book conventions.

— Ernest Cline

“I understood her, trusted her, and loved her as a dear friend. None of that had changed, or could be changed by…

— Ernest Cline

“Dilettantes,’ Art3mis said. ‘It’s their own fault for not knowing all the Schoolhouse Rock! lyrics by heart.”

— Ernest Cline

“I fired a last volley of plasma bolts at the unprotected enemy ship, which was already vibrating from the buildup of power…

— Ernest Cline

I've heard Stephen King say that when you write a novel you end up revealing everything about yourself.

— Ernest Cline

Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand.

— Ernest Cline

“Something Daito had left to me in his will.”

— Ernest Cline

The clans began to bombard the outer force field with rockets, missiles, nukes, and harsh language.

— Ernest Cline

“tried to keep my cool. I tried to remain skeptical. I reminded myself that I was a man of science, even if…

— Ernest Cline

I notice when I'm at a party where I don't know anybody - even if I have nothing in common with somebody…

— 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

I burned through all of my extra lives in a matter of minutes, and my two least-favorite words appeared on the screen:…

— Ernest Cline

“Listen,” I said. “It really was luck. I’ve got a knack for classic arcade games. That’s my specialty.” I shrugged. “Stop hitting…

— Ernest Cline

“That story you heard? About how we were all created by a super-powerful dude named God who lives up in the sky?…

— Ernest Cline

“I wish someone had just told me the truth right up front, as soon as I was old enough to understand it.…

— Ernest Cline

“At first, I couldn't understand why the media was making such a big deal of the billionaire's death. After all, the people…

— Ernest Cline

A river of words flowed between us.

— Ernest Cline

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

— Ernest Cline

“You know you've totally screwed up your life when your whole world turns to shit and the only person you have to…

— 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

“Maybe it was just as I had always secretly feared: The apple had fallen right next to the Crazy Tree.”

— Ernest Cline

Whenever I watch 'The Matrix,' I think that it is possible, but I don't think that it's going to be machines enslaving…

— Ernest Cline