Ernest Cline

I think it's a bit silly to brand the Internet as the 'downfall of youth.' ”

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. ”

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

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. ”

Now, a lot of early VR worlds or universes that are coming online take inspiration from 'Ready Player One.' It's just the coolest thing ever. ”

Gibson wrote 'Neuromancer' on a typewriter, you know, before the technology he was writing about existed. ”

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. ”

I have such a vivid memory of seeing science fiction movies and going to the lobby and playing whatever the space games were, and imagine I was blowing up the Death Star. ”

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