Douglas Coupland Family Quotations

Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.

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.

Headwise, I always kind of knew that everyone goes grey in our family very early - and I was like, it works for me. I started growing my beard, and it changes the shape of your skull and your face, and I started seeing my mother's side of the family in myself for the first time.

If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you have to love them.

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family - it's just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next.

We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid.

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.