Douglas Coupland Quotes
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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.
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I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?
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It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.
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Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people.
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Technology favors horrible people.
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The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.
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With 'Worst. Person. Ever.' I knew where it started and where it had to end, but I threw Raymond as many curveballs as I could along the way. He's like the coyote in the 'Road Runner' cartoons.
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Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely.
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If money is not maintained, it can collapse like a bridge along Interstate 5 and fixing it, even with determined politicians, will take ages, during which time God only knows how much human damage will occur.
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Hip flasks are the juice machines of the alcohol world - everyone has one and it never gets used.
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Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.
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People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity. (from inside the cover)
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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. Well, what can you do about it? Next.
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Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.
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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?
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The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.
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If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.
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If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.
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I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.
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TV didn't kill radio, it just added something new to the mix.
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Aliens didn't come down to Earth and give us technology. We invented it ourselves. Therefore it can never be alienating; it can only be an expression of our humanity.
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There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.
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I don't know how anyone gets anything done in cities. How can you live somewhere like London or New York, when there are 81 things to do every night? Awful. Give me solitude and space any time.
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Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.