Some of my favorite experiences of art are when I am there but my attention has wandered. I think stimulation is overrated,… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
I find that when I'm in a relationship, I'm just so 'in it,' you couldn't even call it an art; it's such… — 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
Writing plays, I've always felt a little like I'm guessing - less sure of what's good and what's not good. I think… — 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 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 Copy Share Image
Literature and art are one of a number of relationships I have with the world. Like you have relationships with your friends… — Sheila Heti 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 Copy Share Image
“Sholem [a painter] was saying that freedom, for him, is having the technical facility to be able to execute whatever he wants,… — 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 Image
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 Image
“style is about knowing what you like and why you like it, more than anything else. GRACE” — Sheila Heti 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 the book… — 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
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 Image
“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 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 here if… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
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 Image
Women without children can help mothers, and we can just be all in this together. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
![“Sholem [a painter] was saying that freedom, for him, is having the technical facility to be able to execute whatever he wants, just whatever image he has in his mind. But that's not freedom! That's control, or power. Whereas I think Margaux understands freedom to be the freedom to take risks, the…” quote by Sheila Heti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9b5/sheila-heti-2776_art_sholem-a-painter-was-saying-that-freedom_1434124.jpg)
