Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives. — Sheila Heti Fiction Copy Share Image
A line drawn with love can make us as vulnerable as what the line depicts. — Sheila Heti Line 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
When I'm editing, I try to bring out some dramatic structure. I think it is about theater in some way; it is… — Sheila Heti Dramatic Copy Share Image
In my experience, women who are taken seriously take themselves seriously. It's not what you wear. — Sheila Heti Experience Copy Share Image
“style is about knowing what you like and why you like it, more than anything else. GRACE” — Sheila Heti Fashion Copy Share Image
Usually, you don't have commitment promises in a friendship. Usually, it just grows. — Sheila Heti Commitment Copy Share Image
For me, a memoir is supposed to be understood as a representation of your life, whereas a novel is self-consciously symbolic. — Sheila Heti Books Copy Share Image
Only in our failures are we absolutely alone. Only in the pursuit of failure can a person really be free. Losers may… — Sheila Heti Age 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 Clear 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
“Had anyone suggested at the time that it would not be the Egypt of the pharaohs that would survive and change the… — Sheila Heti Absurdity 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
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 Fiction Copy Share Image
“It’s like being a good curator—like Barnes—getting the combination of everything so right that nobody even questions it; making a hard thing… — Sheila Heti Curator Copy Share Image
Writing plays, I've always felt a little like I'm guessing - less sure of what's good and what's not good. I think… — Sheila Heti Art Copy Share Image
I don't think 'Motherhood' is a map for women. I would never say that it's a template for every woman in response… — Sheila Heti Biology Copy Share Image
Raffi Cavoukian was born in Cairo in 1948 and moved with his Armenian parents to Toronto when he was 10. — Sheila Heti Armenian Copy Share Image
Stand-up comedians have a very important relationship to Twitter. For them, it's a place to try out material. — Sheila Heti Comedians Copy Share Image
It's so hard to live that one needs a support around life. We can't live without some supernatural support. — Sheila Heti Hard Copy Share Image
“boundaries, Sheila. Barriers. We need them. They let you love someone. Otherwise you might kill them.” — Sheila Heti Barriers Copy Share Image
Sometimes you can't write a novel for weeks and weeks, but it's good for your self-esteem to work on something else. — Sheila Heti Books Copy Share Image
Somehow I had turned myself into the worst thing in the world: I was just another man who wanted to teach me… — Sheila Heti Another man 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
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
To go on and on about your soul is to miss the whole point of life. I could say that with more… — Sheila Heti Certainty 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
Maybe that's good to not feel like you have to keep up when there's so much to keep up with right now.… — Sheila Heti Feel 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 Clothes Copy Share Image
Nonfiction, to me, feels like an argument, whereas a novel is like a series of questions. — Sheila Heti Argument Copy Share Image
“But style, I also learned, is not about strictly copying others, because style is not transferable.” — Sheila Heti Style 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
Raffi doesn't have any grand theories about why his music has been so successful, but he credits a group called the Babysitters… — Sheila Heti Early 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 Desire 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
In the transcribing and the editing, you want some retention of how the person speaks - you don't want to edit out… — Sheila Heti Bigs Copy Share Image
I saw what was wonderful about human companionship. Before that, I was quite content to be alone, to be a solitary wandering… — Sheila Heti Alone Copy Share Image
“That was it. She came out of it. She never had such a down as that or such an up as the… — Sheila Heti Heart Copy Share Image
There's so much writing I could have done and so many ideas that I had and so many things I wanted to… — Sheila Heti Done Copy Share Image
I'm happy that I wrote 'How Should a Person Be?' and I wouldn't have written that exact book if we had just… — Sheila Heti Book Copy Share Image
