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 Image
When writing sex scenes, there is often no pleasing anyone, except perhaps the writer herself. — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
Guys know how to read each other's signals. They know how to telegraph love for one another without throwing their arms around… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
We allow ourselves to unclench when we're home with our families, which is one of the truly wonderful advantages of human intimacy. — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
I know what the Giller nominee effect is, but we'll see what the next level is. — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
Here it is, 2011, and I feel zero shame when I tell you I would like to marry my smartphone. It is… — Lynn Coady Delight Copy Share Image
I just have to trust that the story is going to shake out in such a way that's going to be palatable… — Lynn Coady Books Copy Share Image
When you're not sure your anger is justified, the thing to do is ask yourself exactly where it's coming from. — Lynn Coady Anger 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 Books Copy Share Image
As a novelist, you have to pick your battles. You are tired. You have begun to experience the first ominous tinglings of… — Lynn Coady Battles 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 Beauty 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 Dilemma Copy Share Image
Let's not confuse traditional behaviours with good manners. The definition of etiquette is gender neutral - it simply means we strive at… — Lynn Coady Etiquette Copy Share Image
Keep a copy of 'Islands in the Stream' by Ernest Hemingway on the left hand side of your desk. Keep Fitzgerald's 'The… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
There was a time when I thought dudes had friendship all figured out. The focus on eating things in front of giant… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
No matter how committed a marriage, there will always be other people - those we have chemistry with and those we don't,… — Lynn Coady Chemistry Copy Share Image
While Person A might believe the kitchen counter provides a reasonable surface on which to place one's balled-up sweatsocks post-gym, Person B… — 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… — Lynn Coady Poetry Copy Share Image
However long, it's definitely the presence of other people that brings out the weirdness - that collision of your own way of… — Lynn Coady Awareness 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 Crisis Copy Share Image
It’s so dangerous to idealize anything, or anyone, or any place, because it gives that thing or person or place a kind… — Lynn Coady Community 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 Books Copy Share Image
Loneliness sucks. It's a slog. It feels wonderful and exhilarating when someone makes it go away. But love is a whole different… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
I come from a working-class background, and I thought I had to be studying something that would get me a job. — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
I would never have thought my collection of short stories would win the Giller. — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
Filtering can be a very good thing when it comes to human relationships and familial harmony. Yeah, filtering is often an absolute… — Lynn Coady Filtering Copy Share Image
“And thank you for not putting it in your book. And fuck you for not putting it in your book.” — Lynn Coady Book Copy Share Image
I started out in the journalism program, but I got kicked out. I wasn't very good at it. It wasn't where I… — 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
It makes me proud not just to be a Canadian writer but to be a Canadian, to live in a country where… — Lynn Coady Canada Copy Share Image
To buy dinner transmits that you feel time spent in your date's company has been a pleasure and a privilege. — Lynn Coady Business Copy Share Image
The thing about relationships is, the stronger they get, the more rapidly the realm of romance starts to overlap with the domestic. — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
No one expects the doormat to stand upright, shake itself off, and amble down the street to seek its own happiness. — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
Anger is one of those emotions that doesn't follow the letter of the law. It speaks before it thinks. It rears up… — Lynn Coady Anger 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
I've never understood people who treat their loved ones worse and with less respect than they would a total stranger or minor… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
