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 Ball game 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 Come Copy Share Image
I would never have thought my collection of short stories would win the Giller. — Lynn Coady Never 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
Dating, like almost every other male-female interaction in present-day society, is based on outmoded and unequal social roles and expectations. — Lynn Coady Date Copy Share Image
When writing sex scenes, there is often no pleasing anyone, except perhaps the writer herself. — Lynn Coady Except 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 Another 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
“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 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
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
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 Always 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
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 Believe 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
There was a time when I thought dudes had friendship all figured out. The focus on eating things in front of giant… — Lynn Coady Focus 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
“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
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
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 Allow Copy Share Image
I know what the Giller nominee effect is, but we'll see what the next level is. — Lynn Coady Effect 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
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
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
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
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 Better Copy Share Image
It's doubtful that any fiction worth reading has been produced on a computer running Windows Vista. — Lynn Coady Been 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 Easy 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
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 Good 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 Better 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 Canadian Copy Share Image
