There's something about a woman's life choices that invites commentary, whether it's been invited or not. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
I do feel it. And I've felt it my whole life, that the supernatural has a role in the world. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
Writing makes everything else in my life okay; it makes everything make sense. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
For me, a memoir is supposed to be understood as a representation of your life, whereas a novel is self-consciously symbolic. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
It's so hard to live that one needs a support around life. We can't live without some supernatural support. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
Trying to live the image of the life which you have in your head... it's really hard not to do that, but… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
I studied art history and philosophy and took economics and political science classes. I just took whatever I wanted and I didn't… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
If you want to write from life, you can't really write a story. People are always changing, and I think if we… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
We're so sure of what our unlived lives would have been like that we feel guilty for not living them - for… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
There's so much to learn in writing and in life, and in any particular era in one's life, it seems like a… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
Tove Jansson was the most successful Finnish illustrator and writer of children's books of her day, and she was the most widely… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
It's so weird how our existence hinges on just absolute crazy chance, but it feels so essential. It's like, 'Nothing would be… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
To go on and on about your soul is to miss the whole point of life. I could say that with more… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
Women, post-menopause, go back to how they were before they started menstruating, and there's this great freedom in a woman's life when… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
It has long been known to me that certain objects want you as much as you want them. These are the ones… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
“That was it. She came out of it. She never had such a down as that or such an up as the… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
“Because people who live their lives this way can look forward to a single destiny, shared with others of this type -… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
There is a kind of sadness in not wanting the things that give so many other people their life's meaning. There can… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
To me, something that's beautiful in terms of a book is something that lives inside the reader both as a discrete and… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
I believe there's a platonic ideal for every book that is written, like there's the perfect version of the book somewhere in the ether,… — Sheila Heti Copy Share
I really enjoyed the process of 'Women in Clothes,' but there's no way I would have done that again. It felt more like being… — Sheila Heti Copy Share
“style is about knowing what you like and why you like it, more than anything else. GRACE” — Sheila Heti Copy Share
I'd rather that people could be both entertained and given rest while reading my book than for someone to have to put the book… — Sheila Heti Copy Share
“I know that character exists from the outside alone. I know that inside the body there's just temperature.” — Sheila Heti Copy Share
I don't think about the reader when I'm writing, but I do when I'm editing, of course. For instance, I self-consciously didn't want to… — Sheila Heti Copy Share
“She had thought that when someone died, it would be like they went into a different room. She had not known that life itself… — Sheila Heti Copy Share
It's so weird how our existence hinges on just absolute crazy chance, but it feels so essential. It's like, 'Nothing would be here if… — Sheila Heti Copy Share
In 'Sweet Days of Discipline,' the narrator, years after graduating, fortuitously encounters her old friend Frederique at a movie theatre. Frederique invites her home. — Sheila Heti Copy Share
Women without children can help mothers, and we can just be all in this together. — Sheila Heti Copy Share
The reason I write is because I have questions. What I don't want is for people to forget that I'm a novelist and think… — Sheila Heti Copy Share
“But style, I also learned, is not about strictly copying others, because style is not transferable.” — Sheila Heti Copy Share
Renown is something people have always wanted, but maybe what's modern is that it's considered a virtue, this desire, rather than a vice. I… — Sheila Heti Copy Share
