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Lynn Coady
Lynn Coady
Canadian Novelist
Born: Jan 24, 1970
Always Me People Time Writing You
Related authors: Claire Cameron David Bergen Joy Fielding Margaret Atwood Mordecai Richler Robertson Davies Ruth Ozeki
There are people out there who genuinely love literature, who genuinely love to read and read widely, who will never like, or even necessarily get, my books. That was a hard one to swallow, to not feel slighted by. Lynn Coady
Love People Will Books Slighted Out Never Feel Like Read Genuinely Get Swallow Literature Hard Who Even Necessarily Widely
I guess you could say I'm 'kind' to my past books in the way you might be kind to an old boyfriend you still quite like and bear no grudge against but with whom have absolutely no interest in getting back together. Lynn Coady
You Together Be Kind Old Past Guess Back Books Way Say Kind No Interest Bear Could Absolutely Like Boyfriend Still Getting Quite Interest Against Might Whom Grudge
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 coming from a much deeper place. Lynn Coady
Writing Ways Some Something Always Coming Doing Than Same Short Different Stories Short Stories Place Themes Much Across Novels Deeper
I just have to trust that the story is going to shake out in such a way that's going to be palatable to readers. Lynn Coady
Trust Way Out Shake Readers Going Just Story Such A Way
The one thing I've always done as an author is talk to my publicists. Because they have all the best stories - and they have all the dirt on other, more famous and important writers. They're not supposed to talk about it, but sometimes you can get awesome little tidbits from them. Lynn Coady
Best You Sometimes Important Awesome Other One Thing About More Dirt Writers Supposed Talk Because Always Author Get Done Famous The One Thing Stories Little Them Thing
There was a time when I thought dudes had friendship all figured out. The focus on eating things in front of giant screens, pretending to punch one another, competing over who can utter the grossest and most profane personal insults imaginable - this struck me as the very apex of human social exchange. Lynn Coady
Friendship Time Me Focus Thought Pretending Punch Giant Out Eating Struck Exchange Had Over Most Another Insults Dudes Very Personal Front Human Screens Social Apex Profane Figured Who Utter Things Competing Imaginable
The masterstroke of male fraternity, I believed, was the practice of never speaking of anything remotely personal or related to one's emotions. That way, no one is ever made uncomfortable. Any such awkward moments can always be dispelled with a flurry of pretend-punches. Lynn Coady
Emotions Made Practice Related Way Fraternity Uncomfortable Never No-One Remotely Always Male Personal Any Anything Speaking Moments Believed Ever Awkward
Sometimes I pine for the era of Miss Manners, when there were hard and fast rules dictating a well-bred individual's behaviour in any given situation. Lynn Coady
Sometimes Situation Manners Rules Given Individual Miss Era Were Pine Any Behaviour Hard Fast
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 wheels of day-to-day life. Lynn Coady
Life You Culture Day-To-Day Feel Day-To-Day Life Bewildered Wheels Inconsequential Grease Need
Dating, like almost every other male-female interaction in present-day society, is based on outmoded and unequal social roles and expectations. Lynn Coady
Every Society Other Dating Almost Like Expectations Unequal Roles Interaction Social Based Present-Day
To buy dinner transmits that you feel time spent in your date's company has been a pleasure and a privilege. Lynn Coady
Buy Time You Dinner Spent Pleasure Has-Been Date Feel Been Privilege Your Company
Grownups, as a rule, should always be ready to pay for their own meals - or else ready to graciously accept their date's insistence on paying. The point is, one doesn't sit there batting one's eyelashes, fully expecting someone else to claim the bill. Lynn Coady
Sit Own Pay Else Rule Claim Batting Eyelashes Someone Insistence Date Point Accept Ready Always Expecting Meals Should Bill Paying Fully Grownups
I've never understood people who treat their loved ones worse and with less respect than they would a total stranger or minor acquaintance. Lynn Coady
Respect People Treat Worse Would Minor Total Never Understood Than Loved Loved Ones Acquaintance Stranger Less Who
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 simply opted out. Live and let live, I figure. Lynn Coady
Religion Atheist Problem Sunday Live Out Lazy Mornings Simply Like Really Organized Organized Religion Figure
One day it hit me: Truest friends, God bless their hearts, could not care less. They love you, they're pleased you're getting married and, ultimately, they don't give a fig how you get it done. Lynn Coady
Love God Day Me You Care Pleased One Day Married Give Could Bless How Truest Ultimately God Bless Friends Hit Get Hearts Done Getting Getting Married Love You Fig Less
Somewhere in our cultural subconscious, we crave these figures that are big and strong and unassailable, like masculine fortresses. It's like how the 9/11 firemen were venerated. Lynn Coady
Strong Somewhere Big Subconscious Our Firemen Masculine Like How Were Cultural Crave Figures
I should say I am not much of a gamer - anymore. The reason for this is that I have to make a living, and my body requires vitamin D, and I've come to value the heady pleasures of human interaction over the temporary exhilaration of reaching the 'next level.' Lynn Coady
Gamer Value Living Say Pleasures Temporary Over Come Heady Reaching Make Am Exhilaration Human Interaction Anymore Much Next Should Body Next Level Requires Reason Level
It makes me proud not just to be a Canadian writer but to be a Canadian, to live in a country where we treat our writers like movie stars. Lynn Coady
Me Treat Country Live Stars Our Writer Writers Like Makes Proud Canadian Just Where Movie Movie Stars
I would just randomly blurt out things like, 'What if a man showed up today and was carrying an umbrella, but it wasn't raining?' Eventually, people started to call me weird. Lynn Coady
Today Me Man People Randomly Out Carrying Would Weird Like Call Umbrella Up What If Just Eventually Things Raining Started
However long, it's definitely the presence of other people that brings out the weirdness - that collision of your own way of being with the everyday lives of others, the abrupt awareness - always a surprise no matter how often it's happened - that their lives are very different from your own. Lynn Coady
People Matter Long Own Awareness Other Others Everyday Everyday Lives Way Definitely Out Collision Abrupt Weirdness Always How However Surprise Very Often Being Different Happened Your Lives Presence Brings
That's what fascinates me about these writers' retreats: You're in these small spaces with small groups of people, and all of the sudden, the spotlight is shining on you harder than it normally is. Lynn Coady
Me You People About Small Writers Retreats Spotlight Shining Normally Than Spaces Fascinates Groups Sudden Harder
Something I've always written about is social expectations: that the eyes of the community are on you all the time, expecting you to line up with certain social norms, certain behaviours. Whenever you forgot about them, they'd be strongly reiterated to you, in no uncertain terms. Lynn Coady
Time You Eyes Community About Strongly Something Uncertain Written Terms Always Line Up Norms Expectations Expecting Forgot Whenever Social Them Certain
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 about humans is what's balanced by what's kind of ugly and petty and depressing. Lynn Coady
Beautiful Time Ugly Petty Kind About Something Baggage Between Balanced Get Trying Same Same Time Transcendent Little Depressing Humans
I would never have thought my collection of short stories would win the Giller. Lynn Coady
Win Thought Collection Would Never Short Stories Short Stories
I know what the Giller nominee effect is, but we'll see what the next level is. Lynn Coady
See Know Nominee Effect Next Next Level Level
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 Somebody Parents Looking Pain Our Everything Instinctively Make Children Regress
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