When writing sex scenes, there is often no pleasing anyone, except perhaps the writer herself. — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
I'm always writing across the same themes. But with short stories, I'm doing something different than with novels. In some ways, they're… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
I think, as writers, our first responsibility is to writing an honest story. Tell the story you want to tell, without pulling… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
It makes me proud not just to be a Canadian writer but to be a Canadian, to live in a country where… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
What I've learned is that you get better at writing by writing, and that 'youthful energy' will only get you so far. — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
Readers who claim a preference for short-form over long often tell me it's because they don't have time to commit to a… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
Most don't live inside their heads as a writer does, having conversations with her own ideas. — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
The process of writing a story isn't about fair. It's about getting to the heart of your story, getting to the truth… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
Occasionally, chewing over some random letter writer's dilemma, I'll find myself imagining scenarios where the problem could be sidestepped by an innocent… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
The one thing I've always done as an author is talk to my publicists. Because they have all the best stories -… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
That's what fascinates me about these writers' retreats: You're in these small spaces with small groups of people, and all of the… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
Now, as a writer, the whole world is your nail polish display, and what's more, you can help yourself. A thrilling, colourful… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
Do not make the writer stand behind a podium. Anything but. A podium reeks of the lecture hall. A music stand, on… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
Considerations of plot do a great deal of heavy lifting when it comes to long-form narrative - readers will overlook the most… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
You can catch a scent in the wind - an idea, or a concept - and follow it. You can delve into… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
I avoid writing about sex out of a certainty that no matter how grown up and matter-of-fact I might try to be,… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
“I,” I’ll type. And that will be enough. Then there are the other days, when nothing is enough. The poem grins. It… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
This is not necessarily the answer people want, but ultimately, I think writing is an amoral process. Your ultimate responsibility is to… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
It's the typical mid-life crisis kind of thing, where you just stop and wonder, 'Should I go back to university and get… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
Ever since 'Strange Heaven,' I haven't really reread my old work. Not so much because I don't like the writer I was,… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
You can't really go into TV thinking, 'Maybe I can make a few bucks doing this thing I'm only kind of interested… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
You know the actor's nightmare is getting up onstage and not being prepared? I think the writer's nightmare is giving a reading… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
I still find the idea of a research-heavy or historical novel daunting. That's something I've had in mind for a while: like,… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
“Then there are the other days, when nothing is enough. The poem grins. It grins because it knows it is a terrible poem. It… — Lynn Coady Copy Share
A dominant misconception among believers is that their atheist brethren are a slavering pack of hell-bound debauchees, gleefully wining and wenching their way through… — Lynn Coady Copy Share
Ever since 'Strange Heaven,' I haven't really reread my old work. Not so much because I don't like the writer I was, or because… — Lynn Coady Copy Share
There are people out there who genuinely love literature, who genuinely love to read and read widely, who will never like, or even necessarily… — Lynn Coady Copy Share
Here's the thing about lingerie: The only time we see it outside our own bedrooms, it is on women who are gloriously freakish in… — Lynn Coady Copy Share
The one thing I've always done as an author is talk to my publicists. Because they have all the best stories - and they… — Lynn Coady Copy Share
Literary readings aren't going to shake their reputation as the added-fibre of our entertainment diet until the people who organize and participate in them… — Lynn Coady Copy Share
I really do think of it in moral terms. I think that we can't kid ourselves that the storytelling impulse is innocent and does… — Lynn Coady Copy Share
One does not become an atheist out of a desire for hassle-free Sunday mornings. People come to atheism because they have a problem with… — Lynn Coady Copy Share
Atheism is a moral position - a rather rigid one, if you've ever read the opinions of its highest-profile espousers, Christopher Hitchens and Richard… — Lynn Coady Copy Share
Filtering can be a very good thing when it comes to human relationships and familial harmony. Yeah, filtering is often an absolute necessity. — Lynn Coady Copy Share
I know what the Giller nominee effect is, but we'll see what the next level is. — Lynn Coady Copy Share
Dating, like almost every other male-female interaction in present-day society, is based on outmoded and unequal social roles and expectations. — Lynn Coady Copy Share
It's the typical mid-life crisis kind of thing, where you just stop and wonder, 'Should I go back to university and get a law… — Lynn Coady Copy Share
