Latest Douglas Coupland Quotes from Interviews

• I think, there are people for whom freedom is a bigger, more important thing than stability.

  Douglas Coupland

  Pensamiento, Gente, Importante

  Source: www.shedoesthecity.com

• It's just amazing how hard it is for people to change, even when amazing things happen. It almost reinforces who you are instead of making you change.

  Douglas Coupland

  People, Happens, Hard

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

• The more you want something to happen, the harder it becomes.

  Douglas Coupland

  Want Something, Want, Harder

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

• Discussions of generations only go downhill. There's no point in having them.

  Douglas Coupland

  Generations, Discussion, No Point

  Fuente: feathertale.com

• TV is all about hair. And then skin. And then clothing. And then it's about your voice. And finally the report, what you're actually saying. And 99 times out of 100, it never gets past the hair.

  Douglas Coupland

  Past, Hair, Voice

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. April 15, 1998.

• In the old days people had far fewer channels in which to place their imaginative time. There's definitely more competition for time . . . and yet people seem to be reading [books] as much.

  Douglas Coupland

  Libro, Lectura, Personas

  Fuente: feathertale.com

• I think individual people are interesting, not really groups of people.

  Douglas Coupland

  Pensar, Gente, Interesante

  Fuente: feathertale.com

• A nadie le importa la valía. A la gente le importa lo que hay de verdad dentro de ti.

  Douglas Coupland

  Real, People, Care

  Fuente: feathertale.com

• I find people who prejudge reality TV to be annoying. Art comes from anywhere. Culture can ooze out of any crack. Prejudging is the death of creativity.

  Douglas Coupland

  Arte, Creatividad, Realidad

  Fuente: feathertale.com

• I want to see books taken out of historical time and placed into a different timeline, such as evolutionary or geological time, as a means of putting the human experience in context.

  Douglas Coupland

  Taken, Book, Mean

  Fuente: feathertale.com

• I like having a beard. My beard changes my face shape and allows me to see in it family members who I love and can't see otherwise.

  Douglas Coupland

  Shapes, Beard, Faces

  Fuente: feathertale.com

• It'd be preposterous for me to propose a universal cure to loneliness but I will say that people who do the things they find interesting, either creatively or vocationally, tend to become unlonely very quickly.

  Douglas Coupland

  Loneliness, People, Interesting

  Fuente: feathertale.com

• Mi proceso de escritura es ritualizado y monótono, pero no hay otra forma de hacer el trabajo. Todos los escritores de ficción que he conocido dicen lo mismo.

  Douglas Coupland

  Jobs, Writing, Fiction

  Fuente: feathertale.com

• Construyo mi vida para no despertarme por nada. Nunca. Si me haces madrugar para hacer algo contigo, te odiaré, te guardaré rencor y buscaré la manera de no tener que trabajar contigo nunca más.

  Douglas Coupland

  Hate, Up Early, Resent You

  Fuente: feathertale.com

• Why are we even here [on earth], what's our human nature? It's precipitating a real philosophical crisis that I find quite fascinating.

  Douglas Coupland

  Real, Philosophical, Earth

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

• I think writing would have happened to me anyway, somehow. Differently, but it still would have happened.

  Douglas Coupland

  Writing, Thinking, Stills

  Fuente: feathertale.com

• I like the present. I'm always interested in new ideas, and what's happening. I'm not nostalgic.

  Douglas Coupland

  Ideas, Nostalgic, New Ideas

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

• When the world throws you too much information, the only way you can stay sane or survive is to look for pattern recognition. Amidst all the blurs, is there a constellation that emerges, is there a straight line that's emerging. I think as long as you keep your mind in the palce where you're actively looking for patterns, you may not be safe, but you're going to feel safe, I think.

  Douglas Coupland

  Thinking, Long, Mind

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

• I really do force myself to not be fully engaged with all the technology at once, just because I have an addictive personality and I get too into it.

  Douglas Coupland

  Technology, Personality, Force

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

• So much information lacks a good way to store it, especially when it's all digital; sometimes it requires old technology to go back and retrieve it.

  Douglas Coupland

  Technology, Information, Way

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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