Laurie Simmons began showing her photographs in New York in the late '70s: black-and-white and then candy-colored scenarios with plastic dolls in… — Sheila Heti Dolls 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
“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 always had a fantasy of meeting a girl who was as serious as I was. — Sheila Heti Fantasy 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 remember where I was when I wrote that story, 'Mermaid in a Jar.' I was at a boyfriend's, and he was… — Sheila Heti Parents Copy Share Image
We're so sure of what our unlived lives would have been like that we feel guilty for not living them - for… — Sheila Heti Feel Copy Share Image
“boundaries, Sheila. Barriers. We need them. They let you love someone. Otherwise you might kill them.” — Sheila Heti Boundaries Copy Share Image
When you're writing, I think a big part of writing comes out of an attempt to understand yourself. You're dealing with emotions… — Sheila Heti Emotions 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 Becoming Copy Share Image
I think I prefer writing books because the work of art begins and ends with you - it's easier to know if… — Sheila Heti Art 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
The main problem I've always had with fashion media is that women are encouraged to copy other women. — Sheila Heti Always Copy Share Image
Women, post-menopause, go back to how they were before they started menstruating, and there's this great freedom in a woman's life when… — Sheila Heti Freedom Copy Share Image
Today, I defined 'sentimental' to myself as a feeling about the idea of a feeling. — Sheila Heti Feeling 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
You think you're writing the most important book, you think you're writing the most stupid book, and you never really know before… — Sheila Heti Book 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 My time 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
Fiction is a way for writers to preserve their friendships and their romances! — Sheila Heti Fiction Copy Share Image
One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. — Sheila Heti Being Copy Share Image
Our delusions of omniscience play a role in our ideas of not only what we want but also what we want to… — Sheila Heti Delusions Copy Share Image
I've written about women's lives, and I just want to write about them from being a woman. I don't need feminism on… — Sheila Heti Being Copy Share Image
No child, through her own will, can pull a mother out of her suffering, and as an adult, I have been very… — Sheila Heti Busy Copy Share Image
