“Women’s fiction” doesn’t sound like anything but a slur to my ears.” — Sheila Heti Writers-on-writing Copy Share Image
We don't know the effects we have on each other, but we have them. — Sheila Heti Effects Copy Share Image
Every choice you make has higher stakes - or that's how it feels. — Sheila Heti Choice Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way for writers to preserve their friendships and their romances! — Sheila Heti Fiction Copy Share Image
Writing makes everything else in my life okay; it makes everything make sense. — Sheila Heti Everything Copy Share Image
My feminism is just part of my being - a part of my understanding of the world. — Sheila Heti Being Copy Share Image
There's so much anxiety about being understood - and being understood through what you wear. — Sheila Heti About Copy Share Image
I do feel it. And I've felt it my whole life, that the supernatural has a role in the world. — Sheila Heti Feel 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 Always Copy Share Image
One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could… — Sheila Heti Being a woman Copy Share Image
There's something about a woman's life choices that invites commentary, whether it's been invited or not. — Sheila Heti About 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 Absorbing 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… — Sheila Heti Anything 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 Books 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 Book 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 Big mistake 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 Art 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 Discipline Copy Share Image
Some of my favorite experiences of art are when I am there but my attention has wandered. I think stimulation is overrated,… — Sheila Heti Art Copy Share Image
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 Acting Copy Share Image
“But two years into our parties, I surveyed the scene from the corner and wondered, Why are we having these parties? What… — Sheila Heti Coming together Copy Share Image
“When I strip away my dreams, what I imagine to be my potential, all the things I haven't said, what I imagine… — Sheila Heti Being 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 Asks 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 Art Copy Share Image
I remember going over proofs of this book - my first book - back in 2001, in a bar in Toronto called… — Sheila Heti Book Copy Share Image
“There's so much beauty in this world that it's hard to begin. There are no words with which to express my gratitude… — Sheila Heti Beauty Copy Share Image
I remember very vividly a little plaid dress on which my father sewed all these hanging beads, little horses and stuff. It… — Sheila Heti Dress Copy Share Image
“Because people who live their lives this way can look forward to a single destiny, shared with others of this type -… — Sheila Heti Human life Copy Share Image
“I did value Margaux, but only now did I understand something I had not before: Margaux was not like the stars in… — Sheila Heti Stars in the sky 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 Art Copy Share Image
“perhaps that’s what it’s for – self-confidence and courage and energy and peace – perhaps it’s to be used in the world.… — Sheila Heti Confidence Copy Share Image
“Most people live their entire lives with their clothes on, and even if they wanted to, couldn't take them off. Then there… — Sheila Heti Character Copy Share Image
My parents are both scientists, and I was raised without god. — Sheila Heti Catholic Copy Share Image
I always had a fantasy of meeting a girl who was as serious as I was. — Sheila Heti Fantasy 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 used to worry that I wasn't enough like Jesus, but yesterday I remembered who was my king; a man who, when God addressed him and told him to lead the people out of Egypt, said…” quote by Sheila Heti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9eb/sheila-heti-2776_asks_i-hadn-t-realized-until-this-week-that-i_2037819.jpg)
![“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)
