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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 your punches. — Lynn Coady

I don't even like to cry in private. — Lynn Coady

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

I started out in the journalism program, but I got kicked out. I wasn't very good at it. It wasn't where I wanted to be ultimately. — Lynn Coady

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

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

Guys know how to read each other's signals. They know how to telegraph love for one another without throwing their arms around one another. — Lynn Coady

The thing about relationships is, the stronger they get, the more rapidly the realm of romance starts to overlap with the domestic. — Lynn Coady

To buy dinner transmits that you feel time spent in your date's company has been a pleasure and a privilege. — 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 to readers. — Lynn Coady

Here it is, 2011, and I feel zero shame when I tell you I would like to marry my smartphone. It is a handful of pure delight. — Lynn Coady

Readers who claim a preference for short-form over long often tell me it's because they don't have time to commit to a book-length chunk of writing. — Lynn Coady

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

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

What I've learned is that you get better at writing by writing, and that 'youthful energy' will only get you so far. — 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

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

I decided a long time ago to be myself and not worry too much about cultivating some kind of personality that didn't feel natural or true to who I am. — Lynn Coady

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

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

You can't hint a man into bestowing the ideal gift that displays all the love, appreciation and understanding you feel is lacking the rest of year. — Lynn Coady

Most don't live inside their heads as a writer does, having conversations with her own ideas. — 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 on its hind legs and charges. — Lynn Coady

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

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

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

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

In the late sixties, when revolution and upheaval were everywhere, feminists were ridiculed for focusing on housework. — 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 ball game. — Lynn Coady

And thank you for not putting it in your book.
And fuck you for not putting it in your book. — Lynn Coady