Fiction is a way for writers to preserve their friendships and their romances! — 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 mid-twenties. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
Usually, you don't have commitment promises in a friendship. Usually, it just grows. — 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'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 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
In 'Sweet Days of Discipline,' the narrator, years after graduating, fortuitously encounters her old friend Frederique at a movie theatre. Frederique invites… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
'The Chairs are Where the People Go' was told to me by my friend Misha Glouberman; I typed as he talked. In… — Sheila Heti 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
I have this memory of being 15 years old, sitting with a friend on the steps of a little bookstore on Bloor… — Sheila Heti 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 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
