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
When revising, consider whether you have written anything that will hurt or offend a member of your immediate family. If the answer… — Lynn Coady Family Copy Share Image
I even felt like I liked guys better than women - that men were relevant and women weren't. It took me a… — Lynn Coady Better 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 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
In the late sixties, when revolution and upheaval were everywhere, feminists were ridiculed for focusing on housework. — Lynn Coady Feminism 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
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'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 went into the world confident my tea training would open many doors. And I did particularly well with the Irish and… — Lynn Coady Fitness Copy Share Image
We like long-form narrative journalism, and we feel there aren't enough high-profile outlets in Canada running the kind of stories we want… — Lynn Coady Enough 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 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
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
The fundamentals for me are character and conflict. I put character first because readers will be indifferent to conflict if they are… — Lynn Coady Books Copy Share Image
Audience participation can often inject a dose of adrenalin into your average dial-tone literary reading, especially if a handful of audience-members are… — Lynn Coady Always 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
True adulthood occurs the moment we grasp that the people who raised us do not exist solely for our comfort and reassurance.… — Lynn Coady Confidence 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
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
A novelist's sense that he or she is 'above' a certain genre mainly comes out of the notion that the genre is… — Lynn Coady Genre 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
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
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
