Douglas Coupland Quotes
When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one you speak with. I think your writing voice is your laser-guided missile. It's the poetry part of you.
Quotes to Explore
-
You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
-
I'm a night owl for sure. I was born at 1 A.M., and that's the excuse I use.
-
Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
-
What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
-
Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
-
I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
-
Team members need to learn to leverage one another, and that doesn't happen over a golf game or on a phone. It happens by getting together and taking the time to know each other.
-
I'm hardly macho. I present myself as very unnoticeable.
-
To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not.
-
I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.
-
I can do whatever I want.
-
The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
-
Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
-
I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
-
There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
-
Our marine terminals are invaluable commerce infrastructure, not only to our country but also for the many foreign manufacturers who sell primarily in the U.S. market.
-
I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.
-
Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
-
For most Americans, poetry plays no role in their everyday lives. But also for most Americans, contemporary painting or jazz or sculpture play no role either. I'm not saying poetry is singled out as a special thing to ignore.
-
Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?
-
When I was writing Caramelo the last couple of years, a sixty-hour work week was normal. And now I'm lucky if I have eight hours.
-
As to your Newton, I confess I do not understand his void and his gravity; I admit he has demonstrated the movement of the heavenly bodies with more exactitude than his forerunners; but you will admit it is an absurdity to maintain the existence of Nothing.
-
Hitler rounded up all of the vampires in Europe.
-
When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one you speak with. I think your writing voice is your laser-guided missile. It's the poetry part of you.
