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Ernest Christy Cline (born March 29, 1972) is an American novelist, slam poet, and screenwriter. He is known for his novels Ready Player One and Armada; he also co-wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of Ready Player One, directed by Steven Spielberg.

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I feel like I was hit by all of geek culture at once while I was growing up in the '70s and '80s. Saturday morning cartoons like 'Star Blazers' and 'Robotech. ' Live action Japanese shows like 'Ultraman' and 'The Space Giants. '

70S, Growing Up, Hit, Morning, Saturday, Stars

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.

Daydream, Owning, Silly, Team, Years

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

Book, Character, Characters, Comic, Kind, People

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

Games, House, Old, Three

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.

Bird, Horse, Kings, Replied, Said, Undead

I was one of the boys who made passes at girls who wore glasses. Any girl who was smarter than me - that was a huge turn-on.

Boys, Girl, Girls, Glasses, Smarter

Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand.

Culture, Pop, Pops, Shorthand, Use

Going outside is highly overrated.

Overrated, Highly

Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.

Bearable, Being Human, Life, Totally, Videogame, Videogames

No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful

Beautiful, Gets, Want, World

I was watching a collection of vintage '80s cereal commercials when I paused to wonder why cereal manufacturers no longer included toy prizes inside every box. It was a tragedy, in my opinion. Another sign that civilization was going straight down the tubes.

Cereal, Civilization, Manufacturers, Tubes, Vintage

Cops pull me over just to get a better look. They never give me a ticket, even if I'm speeding, but they will ask to take pictures.

Give, Giving, Looks, Pictures, Ticket, Tickets

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. "

Daughter, Hypocrite, Rotting, Think, Thinking

I was a painfully shy, awkward kid, with low self-esteem and almost no social skills. Online, I didn't have a problem talking to people or making friends. But in the real world. interacting with other people - especially kids my own age - made me a nervous wreck. I never knew how to act or what to say, and when I did work up the courage to speak, I always seemed to say the wrong thing.

Age, Kids, Nervous, Painfully, Real, Self Esteem

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.

Champion, Guy, Self, Self Esteem, Slam

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.

1990S, Already, Generations, Nostalgia, Nostalgic, Our Generation

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.

Easy, Happened, Humans, Lived, Wonder, Wondering

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, where'd you go to school?'

College, Dinner, Ernie, Invited, President, School

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.

Know, Talking, Voice, Write, Writing

For one quarter, Black Tiger lets me escape from my rotten existence for three glorious hours. Pretty good deal.

Black, Three, Rotten, Tiger, Glorious

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