Writing, for me, when I'm writing in the first-person, is like a form of acting. So as I'm writing, the character or… — 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
I hadn't realized until this week that in [Moses'] youth he killed a man, an Egyptian, and buried him under some sandI… — Sheila Heti 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 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 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 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
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