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
I know what the Giller nominee effect is, but we'll see what the next level is. — Lynn Coady Effect 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
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
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
“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
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
Do not make the writer stand behind a podium. Anything but. A podium reeks of the lecture hall. A music stand, on… — Lynn Coady Anything 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
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
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 About 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
“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'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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
I think, as writers, our first responsibility is to writing an honest story. Tell the story you want to tell, without pulling… — Lynn Coady I think 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 Happiness 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
It's doubtful that any fiction worth reading has been produced on a computer running Windows Vista. — Lynn Coady Been 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
Flowers are an easy, eloquent expression of love at a time when words can seem clumsy and inadequate. — Lynn Coady Easy 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
That's all small talk is - a quick way to connect on a human level - which is why it is by… — Lynn Coady Bad 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
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
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
I think authors like me are always struggling with the idea that they should have a brand and a Facebook author page… — Lynn Coady Always Copy Share Image
