Douglas Coupland Quotes about Writing

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It's around midnight. After I left Dad, my choice was to either become very drunk or write this. I chose to write this. It felt kind of now-or-never for me.

It's around midnight. After I left Dad, my choice was to either become very drunk or write this. I chose to write this. It felt kind of now-or-never for me.

Douglas Coupland

Dad, Writing, Drunk

My writing process is ritualized and monotonous, but there's no other way to get the job done. All other fiction writers I've met say the same thing.

Douglas Coupland

Jobs, Writing, Fiction

Source: feathertale.com

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.

Douglas Coupland

Hope, Writing, Mean

We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.

Douglas Coupland

Writing, Rude, Friendly

Douglas Coupland (2011). “Microserfs: A Novel”, p.49, Harper Collins

I thought about how odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people. The only activities I could think of that humans do that have no animal equivalent were smoking, body-building and writing. That's not much, considering how special we seem to think we are.

Douglas Coupland

Writing, Animal, Thinking

Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.15, Simon and Schuster