Quotes About Ernest Cline

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

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.

My favorite video game of all time is called 'Black Tiger'. It's a Capcom Dungeons and Dragons game from 1987. I have the actual arcade version sitting in my office.

I had a serious cute-geeky-girls-playing-ukuleles fetish that I can neither explain nor defend.

Anyone smart enough to accomplish what they have should know better than to risk everything by talking to the vultures in the media.

I was staring out the classroom window and daydreaming of adventure when I spotted the flying saucer.

I was too weird, even for the weirdos. And girls? Talking to girls was out of the question. To me, they were like some exotic alien species, both beautiful and terrifying.

You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the Frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan Armada.

no self-respecting extraterrestrial would ever pick my hometown of Beaverton, Oregon—aka Yawnsville, USA—as their point of first contact.

Apparently, 'charity, hope, and faith' are also the names of three martyred Catholic saints.

Are you cocks arguing about Star Wars again?" he said, descending the steps and walking over to join the crowd around us. "That shit is so played out, yo.

Anorak's Invitation begins with the sound of trumpets, the opening of an old song called "Dead Man's Party.

Ray was in his usual spot behind the counter, hunched over "Big Bootay," his ancient overclocked gaming PC.

You promised to consider going to college to study how to make videogames, like Mike Cruz is planning to do?

Anorak" was a nickname Halliday had been given by a female British exchange student at his high school.

world to hide from its problems while human civilization slowly collapses, primarily due to neglect." Rumors

with humanity? If this was how we treated each other, how much kindness could we possibly show to some race of bug-eyed beings from beyond?

This is a special strain of Yoda Kush that I myself created," Shin said, holding up his giant spliff.

My mom once told me that my dad had given me an alliterative name, Wade Watts, because he thought it sounded like the secret identity of a superhero.

1977—Star Wars is released on 5/25/77. Highest grossing movie in history. First wave of brainwashing in prep for invaders arrival?

The real van that I'd used as my hideout had been extracted from the junk pile and airlifted to Columbus, so it could be put on display in the GSS Museum.

Our records also show that you are currently unemployed and have therefore been classified as impecunious. Under current federal law, you are now eligible for mandatory indenturement.

One artificially intelligent supercomputer pretending to be a hostile alien race for the purpose of testing humanity's character?

It wasn't a horse. It was a man banging two coconut halves together. Then I knew where I was. Inside the first scene of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Another of Halliday's favorite films