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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
As a novelist, you have to pick your battles. You are tired. You have begun to experience the first ominous tinglings of carpal tunnel syndrome. You wake up in the middle of the night with both hands lying across your chest like a couple of plucked bird carcasses, dead of all sensation. Lynn Coady Read Quote
You know the actor’s nightmare is getting up onstage and not being prepared? I think the writer’s nightmare is giving a reading and somebody standing up and saying, ‘That’s not your story.’ Lynn Coady Read Quote
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 – about to cut up some vegetables on that same counter, perhaps for a meal intended to be shared with Person A – can only read the sockball as a message that says, ‘Hi! I have contempt for you!’ Lynn Coady Read Quote
Never use dogs to symbolize anything. That is ridiculous. Always ensure that any dogs are just dogs; i.e., characters in the story who happen to be dogs. Lynn Coady Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I even felt like I liked guys better than women – that men were relevant and women weren’t. It took me a while to realize I’d been socialized to have a slighting view of my own gender. Lynn Coady Read Quote
When writing sex scenes, there is often no pleasing anyone, except perhaps the writer herself. Lynn Coady Read Quote
The creative process taps into our deepest subconscious, and we are each of us sex-crazed – products of a shame-based Judeo-Christian culture that has irrevocably warped us all to varying degrees. Lynn Coady Read Quote
