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
I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened.
Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness.
I think the killers get far too much attention.
Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it.
Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.
I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.
Gap clothing allows you to look like you're from nowhere and anywhere.
I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.
I like doing radio because it's so intimate. The moment people hear your voice, you're inside there heads, not only that, you're in there laying eggs.
I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.
God is what keeps us together after the love is gone.
If our subconscious was attractive, we wouldn't have to bury it down deep within us.
Strange how when you're young you have no memories...Then one day you wake up and BOOM, memories overpower all else in your life, forever making the present moment seem sad and unable to compete with a glorious past that now has a life of its own.
High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.