- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a book, you can describe a scene and have any song you want playing on the radio and have any painting you want hanging on the wall. That was really freeing to me when I was writing 'Ready Player One.' I could throw in everything that I love.
- Independence
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a zombie apocalypse movie, nobody's ever seen a zombie movie. Or in an alien invasion movie, nobody has ever seen an alien invasion movie, like 'Independence Day.'
- Possible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I watch 'The Matrix,' I think that it is possible, but I don't think that it's going to be machines enslaving humans.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything you could ever want to happen happened to me when 'Ready Player One' came out.
- Cusp
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
VR really changes everything for flight because the old simulators for the PC were 2D, and you couldn't look around inside the cockpit and learn the controls or even track other planes through the cockpit.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was standing on the shoulders of other science fiction writers like William Gibson, who had written 'Neuromancer' on a typewriter before home computers even really existed, and Neal Stephenson who wrote 'Snow Crash' in the early '90s and imagined an online virtual world before the birth of the modern Internet.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't even think I was quite a year old. My mother was maybe seven months pregnant with my little brother. I was sucked out of her arms, and she landed 75 yards away from our trailer and had a ruptured disc. The tornado set me down on top of this pile of corrugated lumber and scrap metal.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're hanging out with your friends, you reference books and movies, and you don't always know if your friends know what you're referencing. But you throw it out there, and if it connects, it makes people laugh.
- Video Games
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's weird that, in a way, by writing about video games, I get to develop them, too.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020