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281 quotes by Douglas Coupland

Website www.coupland.com Douglas Coupland (pronounced KOHP-lənd) OC OBC (born December 30, 1961) is 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...
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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.

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Comedy is the difference between how you see a person and how they see themselves.

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I worship teachers. They can't be paid enough. It depresses me that society sees them as somehow expendable.

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I'm not a hoarder, I'm a collector: if you have something you like, every time you see it, you have a little happy hit.

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I've got 911 on speed dial.

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If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you have to love them.

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Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler.

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My father has never once asked me a question, any question. There's a freedom that came from that. It allowed me to create my own way of thinking.

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My life is neither a disaster nor supernatural, yet it is an unlikely event.

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People will always choose more money over more sex.

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Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave.

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Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed.

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The future and eternity are two entirely different things.

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