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
“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 Celebrate 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 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 Big Copy Share Image
This is not necessarily the answer people want, but ultimately, I think writing is an amoral process. Your ultimate responsibility is to… — Lynn Coady Process Copy Share Image
It's kind of sad, the way we've turned the entertainment of reading into a kind of psychic broccoli - something to feel… — Lynn Coady Children Copy Share Image
I'm no atheist - I'm lazy. I really do like hassle-free Sunday mornings. I have a problem with organized religion, so I've… — Lynn Coady Atheist 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
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
When a man tells a woman there is no chance of a formal, committed, long-term relationship, the only self-respecting response is to… — Lynn Coady Chance Copy Share Image
I'm trying to get at something a little transcendent between humans. But at the same time, there's all that baggage: What's beautiful… — Lynn Coady Beautiful 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
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
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 Atheism Copy Share Image
Something I've always written about is social expectations: that the eyes of the community are on you all the time, expecting you… — Lynn Coady Community 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
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
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
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
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
The thing about relationships is, the stronger they get, the more rapidly the realm of romance starts to overlap with the domestic. — Lynn Coady Love 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… — Lynn Coady Books 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 Dudes Copy Share Image
Occasionally, chewing over some random letter writer's dilemma, I'll find myself imagining scenarios where the problem could be sidestepped by an innocent… — Lynn Coady Dilemma Copy Share Image
Let's not confuse traditional behaviours with good manners. The definition of etiquette is gender neutral - it simply means we strive at… — Lynn Coady Etiquette Copy Share Image
Keep a copy of 'Islands in the Stream' by Ernest Hemingway on the left hand side of your desk. Keep Fitzgerald's 'The… — Lynn Coady Copy 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
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
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
I've never understood people who treat their loved ones worse and with less respect than they would a total stranger or minor… — Lynn Coady Loved Copy Share Image
I decided a long time ago to be myself and not worry too much about cultivating some kind of personality that didn't… — Lynn Coady Long Copy Share Image
