Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star. One of over … - Ernest Cline

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I have traveled a lot around the world and have seen a lot of people come to my programs. . . [and it made me realize] that people of all ages - from little children to elders - listen to my nasheeds.

Ernest Cline

Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star. One of over a hundred billion in our galaxy. A galaxy that was just one of billions of other galaxies in the observable universe. This helped me keep things in perspective.

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Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand. You might make an obscure reference to Monty Python or Iron Eagle that only some people will get, but if they do it conveys a world of meaning.

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

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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.

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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?'

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

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