My writing process is ritualized and monotonous, but there's no other way to get the job done. All other fiction writers I've… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I've always thought that you live in the present, you live in a specific present. You are writing, present tense, so write… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
It's a cliche, but true, that writing is intensely solitary and at times really lonely. I sit in one room and talk… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career and I cheesed off people without even knowing it,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Art was always my main focus; I fell into writing by accident in the 1980s, writing magazine articles to pay for my… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The things worth writing about, and the things worth reading about, are the things that feel almost beyond description at the start… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I began doing writing projects and art and design projects to explore a new way of seeing Canada. Roots is one more… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Nerds get what they want when they want it, and they go psycho if it's not immediately available. Nerds overfocus. I guess… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I decided at 40 I was wasting entire chunks of my brain and didn't want to blow my one chance on Earth.… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Everyone should have a tailor. David Wilkes, the guy who does my stuff, is like, 'Well you're a writer - do you… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
It's around midnight. After I left Dad, my choice was to either become very drunk or write this. I chose to write… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career, and I cheesed off people without even knowing it,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Cellphones have, if nothing else, turned TV crime writers into lazy sloths. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I'm not patient - and I'm getting more impatient as I get older - but I am disciplined about writing, and I… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I've never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing. It's still my brain… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I've become a day writer: most people start as night writers, and I used to be, but something happened to my endocrine… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I thought about how odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I think writing would have happened to me anyway, somehow. Differently, but it still would have happened. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
And in your new lives you'll have to live entirely for that one sensation-that of imminent truth. And you're going to have to holler… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Do you remember how you felt at seventeen? I do and I don't (...) Imagine you came from outer space and someone showed you… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“But Dag, for all of his efforts, might as well have been talking to a cat. Our parents’ generation seems neither able nor interested… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Negative? Moi? I think realistic might be a better word. You mean to tell me we can drive all the way here from L.A.… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that make us who we… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“I like to go beach-combing, and I like to find interestingly shaped rocks. When I really get into the groove I start finding beautiful… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“You know, Dag and Claire smile a lot, as do many people I know. But I always wondered if there is something either mechanical… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
