“All I'm saying is: if there's a pool and people are in the pool and you're not in the pool, you want… — Sheila Heti Nature Copy Share Image
I'm happy that I wrote 'How Should a Person Be?' and I wouldn't have written that exact book if we had just… — Sheila Heti Book Copy Share Image
I saw what was wonderful about human companionship. Before that, I was quite content to be alone, to be a solitary wandering… — Sheila Heti Alone 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 Heart Copy Share Image
Renown is something people have always wanted, but maybe what's modern is that it's considered a virtue, this desire, rather than a… — Sheila Heti Desire 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
In the transcribing and the editing, you want some retention of how the person speaks - you don't want to edit out… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
Raffi doesn't have any grand theories about why his music has been so successful, but he credits a group called the Babysitters… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
When you're writing, I think a big part of writing comes out of an attempt to understand yourself. You're dealing with emotions… — Sheila Heti Emotions Copy Share Image
“She had thought that when someone died, it would be like they went into a different room. She had not known that… — Sheila Heti Death Copy Share Image
I spend most of my time in my head. You can always work out solutions and satisfactions there. Maybe you can't actually… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
I don't really have a schedule; I just get up in the morning. I work at home. I don't feel that my… — Sheila Heti Home 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 Artist Copy Share Image
I'm in a serious monogamous relationship, and I don't want to keep having different boyfriends, and I have this instead - with… — Sheila Heti Art Copy Share Image
I think that so many people who have children seem to want other people to have children in order to make their… — Sheila Heti Children Copy Share Image
I think that part of the reason I like collaboration so much is because it's something unexpected coming in, and you have… — Sheila Heti Collaboration Copy Share Image
I think making friends you can work with is a skill like any other, developing those particular kinds of intimacies. They're intimacies… — 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 Chance Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I think that I felt like I could only live one way, and I had to figure out… — Sheila Heti Decision Copy Share Image
There was not an awareness of pop culture in the household. There was a lot of respect for working hard, and for… — Sheila Heti Achievement Copy Share Image
There are certain people who do not feel like they were raised by wolves, and they are the ones who make the… — 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 Life Copy Share Image
I really enjoyed the process of 'Women in Clothes,' but there's no way I would have done that again. It felt more… — Sheila Heti Clothes Copy Share Image
For myself, I feel more natural writing stories or novels than writing plays. I feel more like myself, like I can express… — 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 Beautiful Copy Share Image
The thing I worry about is, what happens when your talent flees? Because you see that with writers sometimes: they start writing… — Sheila Heti Books Copy Share Image
A woman will always be made to feel like a criminal, whatever choice she makes, however hard she tries. Mothers feel like… — Sheila Heti Choice Copy Share Image
I didn't study English literature - I studied philosophy at university - so Kierkegaard, Nietzsche - these people are among the most… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
I have this memory of being 15 years old, sitting with a friend on the steps of a little bookstore on Bloor… — Sheila Heti Friendship Copy Share Image
I've written about women's lives, and I just want to write about them from being a woman. I don't need feminism on… — Sheila Heti Being Copy Share Image
