Books Quote by Lynn Coady

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

— Lynn Coady

A dominant misconception among believers is that their atheist brethren are a slavering pack of hell-bound debauchees, gleefully wining and wenching their way through…

— Lynn Coady

Ever since 'Strange Heaven,' I haven't really reread my old work. Not so much because I don't like the writer I was, or because…

— Lynn Coady

There are people out there who genuinely love literature, who genuinely love to read and read widely, who will never like, or even necessarily…

— Lynn Coady

Here's the thing about lingerie: The only time we see it outside our own bedrooms, it is on women who are gloriously freakish in…

— Lynn Coady

The one thing I've always done as an author is talk to my publicists. Because they have all the best stories - and they…

— Lynn Coady

Literary readings aren't going to shake their reputation as the added-fibre of our entertainment diet until the people who organize and participate in them…

— Lynn Coady

I really do think of it in moral terms. I think that we can't kid ourselves that the storytelling impulse is innocent and does…

— Lynn Coady

One does not become an atheist out of a desire for hassle-free Sunday mornings. People come to atheism because they have a problem with…

— Lynn Coady

Atheism is a moral position - a rather rigid one, if you've ever read the opinions of its highest-profile espousers, Christopher Hitchens and Richard…

— Lynn Coady

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

— Lynn Coady

I don't even like to cry in private.

— Lynn Coady