Douglas Coupland
Douglas Coupland
Douglas Coupland OC OBCis a Canadian novelist and artist. His fiction is complemented by recognized works in design and visual art arising from his early formal training. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularized terms such as "McJob" and "Generation X". He has published thirteen novels, two collections of short stories, seven non-fiction books, and a number of dramatic works and screenplays for film and television. A specific feature of Coupland's novels...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth30 December 1961
CountryCanada
Keep your treasure to yourself.
With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless.
Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.
Once you establish a look, and once everybody recognizes that look as your look, you never have to think about fashion again.
In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness.
There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.
Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.
New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.
You can get a subjective and highly factual dossier on most anyone in the public realm almost instantly. It's why publishers don't worry about author photos any more; people just Google a person and get on with things.
Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?
Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?
Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found.
Even when you take a holiday from technology, technology doesn't take a break from you.
A ring is a halo on your finger.