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" My dad was a real man's man, and so were my brothers, in a small town where hockey is king. It's a masculine culture. It made me really attentive to what it meant to be a guy. "
Lynn Coady
Culture
Small
Me
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" I went into the world confident my tea training would open many doors. And I did particularly well with the Irish and fellow Nova Scotians over 60. But this only got me so far. It took a long time to cultivate the tricks of easy social interaction. "
Lynn Coady
Me
World
Time
" Occasionally, chewing over some random letter writer's dilemma, I'll find myself imagining scenarios where the problem could be sidestepped by an innocent fib or series of evasive manoeuvres. Then, I slap myself on the wrist. "
Lynn Coady
Random
Problem
Myself
" We live in a society that celebrates familial connection above any other kind of relationship. We are shown photos of our great-grandparents and encouraged to marvel over facial similarities. We are told to take pride in our bloodlines, celebrate our ancestry. "
Lynn Coady
Kind
Relationship
Society
" 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
Stars
Treat
" 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
Accept
Someone
Sit
" 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 I find flaws in the writing, but more because I get so burnt out on a novel once I've finished writing, revising, editing and copy editing it that I genuinely never want to look at it again after it's gone to press. "
Lynn Coady
Heaven
Look
Work
" 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 organized religion - usually a problem they consider to be of moral urgency. "
Lynn Coady
Religion
Sunday
Moral
" 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 snap out of this mentality. "
Lynn Coady
People
Reputation
Diet
" This is not necessarily the answer people want, but ultimately, I think writing is an amoral process. Your ultimate responsibility is to the truth of the story you're trying to tell. "
Lynn Coady
People
Writing
Truth
" No one expects the doormat to stand upright, shake itself off, and amble down the street to seek its own happiness. "
Lynn Coady
Street
Own
Off
" 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
Long
Own
" We thought we'd name the magazine for the number of bridges within Edmonton's city limits. We thought this number was 18. Much later, we learned that the number is actually 21. But we didn't like the sound of that so much. "
Lynn Coady
Bridges
Thought
Name
" 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
Creative
Process
Us
" The novel, as a genre, was once considered a diversion every bit as frivolous as Facebook, but over the years, we've managed to convince ourselves that reading fiction is as important to our mental digestion as fresh fruits and vegetables are to the processes that take place a little further down. "
Lynn Coady
Down
Reading
Place
" 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
Day
Care
Me
" 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
People
Man
Weird
" Most don't live inside their heads as a writer does, having conversations with her own ideas. "
Lynn Coady
Live
Inside
Writer
" You can't really go into TV thinking, 'Maybe I can make a few bucks doing this thing I'm only kind of interested in to support my one true love, which is prose fiction.' I think you have to love what you're doing to do it well. "
Lynn Coady
Love
Support
Think
" 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
Culture
Feel
" I've always been a sucker for any technology engineered primarily for the entertainment of the human race - even such technology as has been disguised as 'useful' or 'improving' when we all know the real virtue lies in its ability to distract and divert. "
Lynn Coady
Know
Technology
Virtue
" 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
Energy
Will
Better
" Flowers are an easy, eloquent expression of love at a time when words can seem clumsy and inadequate. "
Lynn Coady
Seem
Love
Easy
" Let's not confuse traditional behaviours with good manners. The definition of etiquette is gender neutral - it simply means we strive at all times to ensure a person in our company feels at ease. "
Lynn Coady
Person
Manners
Good
" 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 their physical perfection. "
Lynn Coady
Here
Own
Perfection
" No matter how committed a marriage, there will always be other people - those we have chemistry with and those we don't, those we are attracted to, and those who shop for functional outdoors wear. The sooner a couple can accept the existence of the former and exchange a few basic reassurances concerning them, the easier life gets. "
Lynn Coady
People
Outdoors
Marriage
" 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
Marry
You
Feel
" 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
Live
Problem
Religion
" Dating, like almost every other male-female interaction in present-day society, is based on outmoded and unequal social roles and expectations. "
Lynn Coady
Society
Dating
Expectations
" 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 Dawkins. "
Lynn Coady
Opinions
Atheism
You
" Considerations of plot do a great deal of heavy lifting when it comes to long-form narrative - readers will overlook the most ham-fisted prose if only a writer can make them long to know what happens next. "
Lynn Coady
Narrative
Long
Know