Lynn Coady

A bunch of chairs lined up in front of a podium equals school.

— Lynn Coady

I don't even like to cry in private.

— Lynn Coady

Filtering can be a very good thing when it comes to human relationships and familial harmony. Yeah, filtering is often an absolute…

— Lynn Coady

“And thank you for not putting it in your book. And fuck you for not putting it in your book.”

— Lynn Coady

I come from a working-class background, and I thought I had to be studying something that would get me a job.

— Lynn Coady

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

I would never have thought my collection of short stories would win the Giller.

— Lynn Coady

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

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

I know what the Giller nominee effect is, but we'll see what the next level is.

— Lynn Coady

You can catch a scent in the wind - an idea, or a concept - and follow it. You can delve into…

— Lynn Coady

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

I spent so many years in terror of 'making it legal' because the expression rang all too true - the wedding ritual…

— Lynn Coady

“Of course, the bulk of these monoliths remains underwater. Hence the old "tip of the iceberg" saying. To mean: This is just…

— Lynn Coady

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

I should say I am not much of a gamer - anymore. The reason for this is that I have to make…

— Lynn Coady

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

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

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

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

“Then there are the other days, when nothing is enough. The poem grins. It grins because it knows it is a terrible…

— Lynn Coady

However long, it's definitely the presence of other people that brings out the weirdness - that collision of your own way of…

— Lynn Coady

No matter how committed a marriage, there will always be other people - those we have chemistry with and those we don't,…

— Lynn Coady

There was a time when I thought dudes had friendship all figured out. The focus on eating things in front of giant…

— Lynn Coady

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

“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

Here it is, 2011, and I feel zero shame when I tell you I would like to marry my smartphone. It is…

— Lynn Coady

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

When you're not sure your anger is justified, the thing to do is ask yourself exactly where it's coming from.

— Lynn Coady

Dating, like almost every other male-female interaction in present-day society, is based on outmoded and unequal social roles and expectations.

— Lynn Coady

When writing sex scenes, there is often no pleasing anyone, except perhaps the writer herself.

— Lynn Coady

It's doubtful that any fiction worth reading has been produced on a computer running Windows Vista.

— Lynn Coady

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

Flowers are an easy, eloquent expression of love at a time when words can seem clumsy and inadequate.

— Lynn Coady

In the late sixties, when revolution and upheaval were everywhere, feminists were ridiculed for focusing on housework.

— Lynn Coady

Most don't live inside their heads as a writer does, having conversations with her own ideas.

— Lynn Coady

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

No one expects the doormat to stand upright, shake itself off, and amble down the street to seek its own happiness.

— Lynn Coady

I think, as writers, our first responsibility is to writing an honest story. Tell the story you want to tell, without pulling…

— Lynn Coady

Anger is one of those emotions that doesn't follow the letter of the law. It speaks before it thinks. It rears up…

— Lynn Coady