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
My writing process is ritualized and monotonous, but there's no other way to get the job done. All other fiction writers I've met say the same thing.
I think writing would have happened to me anyway, somehow. Differently, but it still would have happened.
I really do force myself to not be fully engaged with all the technology at once, just because I have an addictive personality and I get too into it.
In the old days people had far fewer channels in which to place their imaginative time. There's definitely more competition for time . . . and yet people seem to be reading [books] as much.
I've given up wanting to make a killing or be a bigshot. I just want to find happiness and maybe open up a little roadside cafe in Idaho.
How can I be a part of the 1960s generation when I don't even remember any of it?
Kids today do nothing. They're so apathetic. We used to go out and protest. All they do is shop and complain.
The Vienna Franks are a good example of urban white acid folk revivalism crossed with ska.
I'd take a helicopter up and throw microwave ovens down on the Taco Bell.
Time erases both the best and the worst of us.
Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.
Ski boots are the worst. Solid plastic. They'll be around till the sun goes supernova.
If you want to get close to somebody, you have to tell him or her something intimate about yourself. They'll tell you something intimate in return, and if you keep this going, maybe you'll end up in love.
Why do most of us make such boring choices for the stories of our lives?