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
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
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 Copy Share Image
It's a moral absolute: If you are going to make a human being, you have a fundamental responsibility to that person -… — Lynn Coady Character 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
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
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
My dad was a real man's man, and so were my brothers, in a small town where hockey is king. It's a… — Lynn Coady Culture 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
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
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 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 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
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
I was always watching the boys and how they interacted. It comes with being a feminist, just somebody who thinks a lot… — Lynn Coady Feminism Copy Share Image
Grownups, as a rule, should always be ready to pay for their own meals - or else ready to graciously accept their… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
One day it hit me: Truest friends, God bless their hearts, could not care less. They love you, they're pleased you're getting… — Lynn Coady Day Copy Share Image
I would just randomly blurt out things like, 'What if a man showed up today and was carrying an umbrella, but it… — Lynn Coady Man 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 Copy Share Image
The masterstroke of male fraternity, I believed, was the practice of never speaking of anything remotely personal or related to one's emotions.… — Lynn Coady Awkward moment 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
That's all small talk is - a quick way to connect on a human level - which is why it is by… — Lynn Coady 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
