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Money isn't money anymore. Ti...

Money isn't money anymore. Time doesn't feel like time anymore. Your sense of community, it's evaporated, too, or it's turned into something you visit at 2 A.M. on a website.

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I've never really seen too mu...

I've never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing. It's still my brain - I'm just using different parts of it for different things.

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My father has never once aske...

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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I miss the reference section ...

I miss the reference section at the library. I used to go there twice a week on missions. Now everywhere's a research library and I can't get an elitist kick from it any more.

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I think way back, the '20s or...

I think way back, the '20s or the '30s, when Kodak came out with the Brownie and they put a list of instructions on the box, like how to use this thing, I think someone arbitrarily said, 'Make sure the person in the photograph is smiling.' And we went from that one sort of set of industrial instructions to this whole culture of perkiness.

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I've become a day writer: mos...

I've become a day writer: most people start as night writers, and I used to be, but something happened to my endocrine system. I do miss the 3 A.M. writing jags.

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The thing with bookshelves, n...

The thing with bookshelves, no matter how many you have, you always fill them.

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I like being surrounded by go...

I like being surrounded by good ideas. Every single time you walk past something you like, you get a blast of happy chemicals to the brain, and I like that.

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I worship teachers. They can'...

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

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I had a lot of really terribl...

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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With 'Worst. Person. Ever.' I...

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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You can get a subjective and ...

You can get a subjective and highly factual dossier on most anyone in the public realm almost instantly. It's why publishers don't worry about author photos any more; people just Google a person and get on with things.

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I've always felt like an alie...

I've always felt like an alien trapped in a human form. We all do at some time or other; for me it's a permanent state, and I'm still unsure if Earth is a penance or a reward.

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It's sort of a law of the art...

It's sort of a law of the art world: The stuff that grows in importance is only the stuff you bought because it wowed you.

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The things worth writing abou...

The things worth writing about, and the things worth reading about, are the things that feel almost beyond description at the start and are, because of that, frightening.

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The urge to reincarnate while...

The urge to reincarnate while still alive is near universal.

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The way we experience history...

The way we experience history and time in all its forms shifted quite massively between 1989 and 2001 - to the point where contrivances like decades are now kind of silly.

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Characters in a book are very...

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.

Douglas Coupland 10.08.2025 20:57:31 371 quotes

I had a lot of really terribl...

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.

Douglas Coupland 10.08.2025 20:57:31 371 quotes

Books arrive in my head all a...

Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper.

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