'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 don't know what that line is between fiction and non-fiction that other people have in their minds, but to me, when… — 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 Copy Share Image
Sometimes you do have people who are great at curating; sometimes you have people curating who don't know what they're do. — 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
Toronto is my home. It's where my family is. I think I feel an obligation to be within subway distance of the… — 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… — Sheila Heti 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 Copy Share Image
I feel like one can have all of that as a writer; you're writing, you're reading, you're talking to interesting and intelligent… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
If you want to write from life, you can't really write a story. People are always changing, and I think if we… — 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
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
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 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
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
I think a lot of people try to edit themselves out and I think that's a big mistake, because the person being… — 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
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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