Top 281 Quotes by Douglas Coupland

About Douglas Coupland

These are some quotes by Canadian author Douglas Coupland Author, who was born on December 30, 1961.

I've never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing. It's still my brain - I'm just using different parts of it for different things.

I've never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing. It's still my brain - I'm just using different parts of it for different things.

Douglas Coupland

I grew up with three brothers, so nearly everything I had was destroyed or made fun of.

I grew up with three brothers, so nearly everything I had was destroyed or made fun of.

Douglas Coupland

In a faraway land called 'pre-2000,' what Earthlings now call blogging was called 'keeping a diary.' It's hard work to do well. I tried doing it in the early 1990s but had to stop because I no longer had a life - instead I had this thing that generated anecdotes to go into my diary. The diary took over and I had to stop.

Douglas Coupland

Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed.

Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed.

Douglas Coupland

Where does personality end and brain damage begin?

Where does personality end and brain damage begin?

Douglas Coupland

I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career and I cheesed off people without even knowing it, all the while thinking I was implementing good advice.

I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career and I cheesed off people without even knowing it, all the while thinking I was implementing good advice.

Douglas Coupland

The Internet has destroyed irony in the world, or at least wounded it considerably. What are we to do about an invention whose end result is that starving people in China are looking up things on marthastewart.com?

Douglas Coupland

I've always thought that you live in the present, you live in a specific present. You are writing, present tense, so write in the present as it is.

I've always thought that you live in the present, you live in a specific present. You are writing, present tense, so write in the present as it is.

Douglas Coupland

Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to a sort of overall averageness.

Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to a sort of overall averageness.

Douglas Coupland

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.

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.

Douglas Coupland

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