Formalized rules of manners were so great because they left no room for basic human haplessness. They allowed us to circumvent our natural boorish tendency to disregard the feelings of others. — 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 ham-fisted prose if only a writer can make them long to know what happens next. — 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 Image
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 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, or because… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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 in them… — Lynn Coady 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 and does… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
