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
If you're not a tree hugger, then you're a what, a tree hater?
It's just amazing how hard it is for people to change, even when amazing things happen. It almost reinforces who you are instead of making you change.
I like the present. I'm always interested in new ideas, and what's happening. I'm not nostalgic.
I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints....I think that, as you age, you tend to gravitate towards the classics, but those aren't the books that give you the same sort of hope for the world that a cherished book does.
In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in sentences that end before finishing. We sleep heavily because we need to ask so many questions as we dream alone. We bump into others and feel bashful at recognizing souls so similar to ourselves.
If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.
what I remember is the silence in spite of the noise. In my head it might just as well have been a snowy day in the country.
Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity.
There are three things we cry for in life: things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.
It's not healthy to live life as a succession of isolated little cool moments.
TV is all about hair. And then skin. And then clothing. And then it's about your voice. And finally the report, what you're actually saying. And 99 times out of 100, it never gets past the hair.
You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.
Starved for affection, terrified of abandonment, I began to wonder if sex was really just an excuse to look deeply into another human being's eyes.
After you're dead and buried and floating around whatever place we go to, what's going to be your best memory of earth? What one moment for you defines what it's like to be alive on this planet. What's your takeaway? Fake yuppie experiences that you had to spend money on, like white water rafting or elephant rides in Thailand don't count. I want to hear some small moment from your life that proves you're really alive.