Ernest Cline Quotes

The video game market is huge, and the ability to tell stories, and tell different kinds of stories in the gaming space is quickly evolving and changing for the better.

Games are getting more interesting. I mean, when we talk about books, they can be anything from a summer blockbuster to 'War and Peace' - well, games are the same. I think the creative side is catching up with the technology.

Who I love reading is Jordan Mechner, who wrote 'Prince of Persia.' He put all his journals while he was writing 'Prince of Persia' online.

You can even express movies and poetry using video games. For those reasons, I've decided to create stories through video games.

I don't know how video game narrative works.

I think 'Overlord' has definitely benefited because I work with every single level designer, and working where we have space to tell the story. That's what it's all about - getting writers and storytellers involved in the team and being a back and forth process.

Video games are a huge, incredibly popular, world-transforming medium.

I mostly associated video game storytelling with unforgivable clumsiness, irredeemable incompetence - and suddenly, I was finding the aesthetic and formal concerns I'd always associated with fiction: storytelling, form, the medium, character. That kind of shocked me.

All video games are games, obviously. They're designed. They're digital. They have rules; they give an audience some type of vicarious experience.

Designing characters for 'Dragon Quest' is fun but difficult work.

A lot of the greatest artists, their work is always about life and the world. I think there needs to be that for video games.

I want games to have their own identity.

So much emotion goes into writing fiction.

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.

When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.

Though my stories aren't autobiographical, I do sometimes use things from my life.

There is a definite argument to be made that videogames are becoming an art form put together by artists of different types.

I think every character I've ever come up with has been based on someone or something I've known.

'Ghost City' began as a idea. I felt that I hadn't read or heard a great deal about the sort of life that I thought I had, and I just thought that it would be interesting to sit down and see if I could put it down onto paper.

In the past, I'll admit, I've enjoyed being compared to the protagonists in my screenplays.

What I write about in my novels is also what's in my life.

My advice is that it's easier to write than direct. If you have an interest in writing, write. You might as well start with yourself or some event you know well, and you need a point of view.

You don't really want to talk about 'Duke' in terms of, how many levels are there, how many guns does it have, how many monsters… It's got everything it needs in terms of that, but it's always been about the experience.

We have a whole industry which is gigantic: games. Games is very successful. It's its own art form, though, and it's not the same as a linear narrative.

I see games... as the ultimate combination of art and technology.