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
I just always try to respond to what I'm most interested in at the moment - that hasn't changed. — Sheila Heti 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
It took me five or six years to write 'How Should a Person Be?' and there were many times when I felt… — 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
We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
“Had anyone suggested at the time that it would not be the Egypt of the pharaohs that would survive and change the… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
There are times when things are clear in your head and your heart and everything comes all aligned and it's easy and… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
I wished to have the time to put together a world view, but there was never enough time, and also, those who… — 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
