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Lynn Coady Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: canadian
Birth: January 24, 1970

Topics

Great Long Know Will Heavy Plot

I chaired the 1982 Democratic Party Commission on Presidential Nominations that created certain automatic delegates to the Democratic convention - the 'superdelegates.' It was a good idea then, and it is still a good idea.

Jim Hunt

Good Party Good Idea Democratic Idea

I cannot judge a country. I fall in love with the people and the place each time I visit a new place.

Mawra Hocane

Love Time People Judge Fall Place

I don't think any writer is a friend to the reader if he or she is not funny.

Amitava Kumar

Funny Friend Think She Writer He

If we do find ET, we will at least have something in common with them. They may live on planet Zog and have seven tentacles, but they will be made of the same kinds of atoms as us. If they have eyes, they will gaze out on the same cosmos as we do. They will, like us, trace their origins back to a 'Big Bang' 13.8 billion years ago.

Martin Rees

Live Eyes Back Find Will Out

Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral.

Dee Hock

Ephemeral Substance Enduring Form

I'm not old-fashioned.

Cher

Old-Fashioned

To find the courage to do what I want to do for myself has been hard.

Brie Larson

Courage Myself Find Want Hard Been

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

Allen Tate

Religion Values Technique Sole

I guess my job has always been to build the music, direct the videos, to do all the things that usually fall behind the scenes.

Ryan Lewis

Music Job Fall Build Always Things

Never be afraid to ask when you don't understand. It sounds like a little thing, but awful things have happened, international incidents have flared, and markets have collapsed just because people couldn't make sense of what was being said. They didn't ask 'why?' because they thought it would make them look stupid.

Lynda Resnick

People Stupid Thought You Look Said

Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.

Henry Williamson

Water Habit Enough Long Become Been

Music allows the great opportunity to play with people who turned you on and you love.

Herbie Mann

Love Music Opportunity Great People