Quotes from Ernest Cline

I'm incredibly nostalgic for the '80s, because I think that's when Geek Culture really kicked in to high gear.

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.

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

I have to avoid things like 'World of Warcraft' or 'Minecraft', otherwise I'd never get any work done.

I noticed in the late 1990s that my friends and I were already nostalgic for the 1980s, and by the turn of the century, VH1's 'I Love the '80s' gave all of us an accelerated nostalgia for our generation.

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.

Everybody has this fond association with the car from Back to the Future, but most people have never seen one. I've seen people drive off the berm trying to take pictures. It ends up being dangerous.

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.

It's weird that, in a way, by writing about video games, I get to develop them, too.

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.

Once the people of planet Earth are all hanging out together online in a virtual world without any borders, I think it could change social networking, entertainment and even politics.

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

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'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.

You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.