Douglas Coupland Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Douglas Coupland

  Writing, Thinking, Stills

  Source: feathertale.com

• 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

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