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
Money is more than a massively consensual IOU note. It is a piece of infrastructure and is as artificial as Interstate 5, NutraSweet or season three of 'Mad Men.'
Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler.
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.
It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
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.
There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.
I go to the gym three days a week. You have to or else - I don't want to be the guy that dies shoveling snow.
Fashionable people can opt out of the fashion stream, but a stylish person never becomes unstylish unless they hit their head on a rock and suffer brain damage.
Fashion only seems to make sense if it's rooted in some dimension of history or if it feels like a continuation of an idea.
Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper.
The thing with bookshelves, no matter how many you have, you always fill them.
The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would.