Delightful, tragic, gloriously elegiac and riddled with puns-Close to Hugh is just like life, only so much more beautiful for being art. — Lynn Coady Art Copy Share Image
It's doubtful that any fiction worth reading has been produced on a computer running Windows Vista. — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
We are all somebody's children, and when we're in pain, we regress, instinctively looking to our parents to make everything better. — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
In the late sixties, when revolution and upheaval were everywhere, feminists were ridiculed for focusing on housework. — Lynn Coady Feminism Copy Share Image
Flowers are an easy, eloquent expression of love at a time when words can seem clumsy and inadequate. — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
Most don't live inside their heads as a writer does, having conversations with her own ideas. — Lynn Coady Communication 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 Awesome Copy Share Image
Literary readings aren't going to shake their reputation as the added-fibre of our entertainment diet until the people who organize and participate… — Lynn Coady Books 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 Books 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 Certainty Copy Share Image
You don't need to have Asperger's to feel bewildered in a culture that relies so heavily on inconsequential chit-chat to grease the… — Lynn Coady Bewildered Copy Share Image
I spent so many years in terror of 'making it legal' because the expression rang all too true - the wedding ritual… — Lynn Coady Expression Copy Share Image
“Of course, the bulk of these monoliths remains underwater. Hence the old "tip of the iceberg" saying. To mean: This is just… — Lynn Coady Tip of the iceberg Copy Share Image
I should say I am not much of a gamer - anymore. The reason for this is that I have to make… — Lynn Coady Body Copy Share Image
The novel, as a genre, was once considered a diversion every bit as frivolous as Facebook, but over the years, we've managed… — Lynn Coady Books 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 Poem 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 guess you could say I'm 'kind' to my past books in the way you might be kind to an old boyfriend… — Lynn Coady Books Copy Share Image
Atheism is a moral position - a rather rigid one, if you've ever read the opinions of its highest-profile espousers, Christopher Hitchens… — Lynn Coady Atheism Copy Share Image
I was always watching the boys and how they interacted. It comes with being a feminist, just somebody who thinks a lot… — Lynn Coady Feminism Copy Share Image
Grownups, as a rule, should always be ready to pay for their own meals - or else ready to graciously accept their… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
You can't hint a man into bestowing the ideal gift that displays all the love, appreciation and understanding you feel is lacking… — Lynn Coady Appreciation Copy Share Image
That's all small talk is - a quick way to connect on a human level - which is why it is by… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
One day it hit me: Truest friends, God bless their hearts, could not care less. They love you, they're pleased you're getting… — Lynn Coady Day Copy Share Image
I would just randomly blurt out things like, 'What if a man showed up today and was carrying an umbrella, but it… — Lynn Coady Man Copy Share Image
Audience participation can often inject a dose of adrenalin into your average dial-tone literary reading, especially if a handful of audience-members are… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
The masterstroke of male fraternity, I believed, was the practice of never speaking of anything remotely personal or related to one's emotions.… — Lynn Coady Awkward moment 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 Actor Copy Share Image
The fundamentals for me are character and conflict. I put character first because readers will be indifferent to conflict if they are… — Lynn Coady Books Copy Share Image
Here's the thing about lingerie: The only time we see it outside our own bedrooms, it is on women who are gloriously… — Lynn Coady Lingerie Copy Share Image
My dad was a real man's man, and so were my brothers, in a small town where hockey is king. It's a… — Lynn Coady Culture Copy Share Image
A novelist's sense that he or she is 'above' a certain genre mainly comes out of the notion that the genre is… — Lynn Coady Genre Copy Share Image
I think authors like me are always struggling with the idea that they should have a brand and a Facebook author page… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
“She comes to naught, my dear one, she comes to naught, all that there business. What the hell, maybe twice in your… — Lynn Coady Business Copy Share Image
We live in a society that celebrates familial connection above any other kind of relationship. We are shown photos of our great-grandparents… — 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 Love Copy Share Image
I've always been a sucker for any technology engineered primarily for the entertainment of the human race - even such technology as… — Lynn Coady Entertainment Copy Share Image
I really do think of it in moral terms. I think that we can't kid ourselves that the storytelling impulse is innocent… — Lynn Coady Character Copy Share Image
Somewhere in our cultural subconscious, we crave these figures that are big and strong and unassailable, like masculine fortresses. It's like how… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
I went into the world confident my tea training would open many doors. And I did particularly well with the Irish and… — Lynn Coady Fitness Copy Share Image
