Ernest Cline Quotes
I felt like a kid standing in the world's greatest video arcade without any quarters, unable to do anything but walk around and watch the other kids play.
Cline, Ernest. Ready Player One. Crown Publishers, 2011.
Bemoaning his unpopularity and low approval ratings:
Interestingly, when Picasso was alive, this was a legitimate criticism. However since then, there have been several generations of development of hardware and software, and where the criticism is valid going into the 21st century, computers—with the right software—are beginning to ask questions, create hypotheses, suggest directions if inquiry, and organize concepts. There are even some which purport to function creatively.
Ernest Christy Cline is an American science fiction novelist, slam poet, and screenwriter. He wrote the novels Ready Player One, Armada, and Ready Player Two and co-wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of Ready Player One, directed by Steven Spielberg.