Top 96 Quotes by Lynn Coady

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.

Most don't live inside their heads as a writer does, having conversations with her own ideas.

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

When a man tells a woman there is no chance of a formal, committed, long-term relationship, the only self-respecting response is to take him at his word and move on.

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

We like long-form narrative journalism, and we feel there aren't enough high-profile outlets in Canada running the kind of stories we want to showcase - long, meaty, thoughtful, investigative.

The process of writing a story isn't about fair. It's about getting to the heart of your story, getting to the truth of it. It transcends ideals of fair and unfair, right and wrong.

When revising, consider whether you have written anything that will hurt or offend a member of your immediate family. If the answer is no, go back and add something.

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.

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.