'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
Everyone's always telling themselves stories about their lives, writers or not. — Sheila Heti About Copy Share Image
I don't wear shoes that are going to give me any pain. I just cannot do that. — Sheila Heti Cannot Copy Share Image
To add something to the world should be the question, not not adding something to the world. — Sheila Heti Add Copy Share Image
There's so much anxiety about being understood - and being understood through what you wear. — Sheila Heti About Copy Share Image
Writing makes everything else in my life okay; it makes everything make sense. — Sheila Heti Everything Copy Share Image
“Women’s fiction” doesn’t sound like anything but a slur to my ears.” — Sheila Heti Writers-on-writing 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 Discouraged Copy Share Image
You don't go to tarot readers or psychics when everything's going well. It's always evidence of rock-bottom. — Sheila Heti Always Copy Share Image
There's so much to learn in writing and in life, and in any particular era in one's life, it seems like a… — Sheila Heti Bad Copy Share Image
Everyone is their own kind of poet - you can't miss it when their words are written down. — Sheila Heti Kind Copy Share Image
I think that part of the reason I like collaboration so much is because it's something unexpected coming in, and you have… — Sheila Heti Collaboration Copy Share Image
The thing I worry about is, what happens when your talent flees? Because you see that with writers sometimes: they start writing… — Sheila Heti Books Copy Share Image
Usually, you don't have commitment promises in a friendship. Usually, it just grows. — Sheila Heti Commitment Copy Share Image
“I am obsessed with shopping for secondhand clothing. Nobody else has it, and it has a story that comes with it.” — Sheila Heti Fashion Copy Share Image
“All I'm saying is: if there's a pool and people are in the pool and you're not in the pool, you want… — Sheila Heti Nature 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 Adults 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
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 Body 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
For myself, I feel more natural writing stories or novels than writing plays. I feel more like myself, like I can express… — Sheila Heti Better 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
A line drawn with love can make us as vulnerable as what the line depicts. — Sheila Heti Line Copy Share Image
I think that so many people who have children seem to want other people to have children in order to make their… — Sheila Heti Children Copy Share Image
