“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
A dominant misconception among believers is that their atheist brethren are a slavering pack of hell-bound debauchees, gleefully wining and wenching their… — Lynn Coady Atheist 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
There are people out there who genuinely love literature, who genuinely love to read and read widely, who will never like, or… — 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 Only 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
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
One does not become an atheist out of a desire for hassle-free Sunday mornings. People come to atheism because they have a… — Lynn Coady Atheist 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
Filtering can be a very good thing when it comes to human relationships and familial harmony. Yeah, filtering is often an absolute… — Lynn Coady Good Copy Share Image
I know what the Giller nominee effect is, but we'll see what the next level is. — Lynn Coady Know 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 Dating 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
When writing sex scenes, there is often no pleasing anyone, except perhaps the writer herself. — Lynn Coady Except 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
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
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 Books Copy Share Image
The creative process taps into our deepest subconscious, and we are each of us sex-crazed - products of a shame-based Judeo-Christian culture… — Lynn Coady Creative process Copy Share Image
Never use dogs to symbolize anything. That is ridiculous. Always ensure that any dogs are just dogs; i.e., characters in the story… — Lynn Coady Always 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
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
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 Big Copy Share Image
