I kind of try to resist working a lot. I'm not a very disciplined worker. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
Women without children can help mothers, and we can just be all in this together. — Sheila Heti Children Copy Share Image
“It is their everlasting switching that is the dangerous thing, not what they choose” — Sheila Heti Choice Copy Share Image
You have to know where the funny is, and if you know where the funny is, you know everything. — Sheila Heti Comedy Copy Share Image
Everyone's always telling themselves stories about their lives, writers or not. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
As a journalist, you don't tend to interview people with a view to becoming their friend. You can't expect that. It's not… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
I don't wear shoes that are going to give me any pain. I just cannot do that. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
“I know that character exists from the outside alone. I know that inside the body there's just temperature.” — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
Only in our failures are we absolutely alone. Only in the pursuit of failure can a person really be free. Losers may… — Sheila Heti Age 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
I see friends of mine who have kids and continue to do their art. It's deeply impressive. I can't even fit an… — Sheila Heti Art Copy Share Image
I think I prefer writing books because the work of art begins and ends with you - it's easier to know if… — Sheila Heti Actor Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, and even to a degree while I was in university, I wasn't on the Internet. So… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
I feel like every single time I've published a book, there's some little light in me that goes out. I've seen the… — Sheila Heti Books Copy Share Image
I just always felt whole when I was writing. I felt this kind of beautiful privacy that I never felt in any… — Sheila Heti Alone Copy Share Image
I remember where I was when I wrote that story, 'Mermaid in a Jar.' I was at a boyfriend's, and he was… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
“But style, I also learned, is not about strictly copying others, because style is not transferable.” — Sheila Heti Style Copy Share Image
Maybe that's good to not feel like you have to keep up when there's so much to keep up with right now.… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
Everyone has to put clothes on in the morning, and it's interesting to see how much people's personal histories come into that… — Sheila Heti Clothes Copy Share Image
Nonfiction, to me, feels like an argument, whereas a novel is like a series of questions. — Sheila Heti Argument Copy Share Image
Everyone is their own kind of poet - you can't miss it when their words are written down. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
I've always had individual friends, but I didn't find the people I wanted to learn from as an adult until my midtwenties. — Sheila Heti Adults Copy Share Image
To add something to the world should be the question, not not adding something to the world. — 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 Certainty Copy Share Image
Somehow I had turned myself into the worst thing in the world: I was just another man who wanted to teach me… — 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
Sometimes you can't write a novel for weeks and weeks, but it's good for your self-esteem to work on something else. — Sheila Heti Books Copy Share Image
“boundaries, Sheila. Barriers. We need them. They let you love someone. Otherwise you might kill them.” — Sheila Heti Barriers Copy Share Image
Stand-up comedians have a very important relationship to Twitter. For them, it's a place to try out material. — Sheila Heti Comedians Copy Share Image
Raffi Cavoukian was born in Cairo in 1948 and moved with his Armenian parents to Toronto when he was 10. — Sheila Heti Armenian Copy Share Image
I don't think 'Motherhood' is a map for women. I would never say that it's a template for every woman in response… — Sheila Heti Biology Copy Share Image
I'd rather that people could be both entertained and given rest while reading my book than for someone to have to put… — Sheila Heti Books Copy Share Image
I wished to have the time to put together a world view, but there was never enough time, and also, those who… — Sheila Heti Age Copy Share Image
“Aside from blow jobs, though, I'm through with being the perfect girlfriend, just through with it. Then if he's sore with me,… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
You think you're writing the most important book, you think you're writing the most stupid book, and you never really know before… — Sheila Heti Book 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… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
The reason I write is because I have questions. What I don't want is for people to forget that I'm a novelist… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
Many of the traits in my characters are exaggerations of things I see in myself. But in 'How Should a Person Be?'… — Sheila Heti Character Copy Share Image
Laurie Simmons began showing her photographs in New York in the late '70s: black-and-white and then candy-colored scenarios with plastic dolls in… — Sheila Heti Dolls Copy Share Image
There's so much writing I could have done and so many ideas that I had and so many things I wanted to… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
