“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
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
Many of the traits in my characters are exaggerations of things I see in myself. But in 'How Should a Person Be?'… — Sheila Heti Character Copy Share Image
The reason I write is because I have questions. What I don't want is for people to forget that I'm a novelist… — Sheila Heti Belong Copy Share Image
“Aside from blow jobs, though, I'm through with being the perfect girlfriend, just through with it. Then if he's sore with me,… — Sheila Heti Blow job 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 believe there's a platonic ideal for every book that is written, like there's the perfect version of the book somewhere in… — Sheila Heti Believe 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 Age 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… — Sheila Heti Books Copy Share Image
I have this memory of being 15 years old, sitting with a friend on the steps of a little bookstore on Bloor… — Sheila Heti Friendship 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
I didn't study English literature - I studied philosophy at university - so Kierkegaard, Nietzsche - these people are among the most… — Sheila Heti Big 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
To me, something that's beautiful in terms of a book is something that lives inside the reader both as a discrete and… — Sheila Heti Beautiful 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
A woman will always be made to feel like a criminal, whatever choice she makes, however hard she tries. Mothers feel like… — Sheila Heti Choice Copy Share Image
There is a kind of sadness in not wanting the things that give so many other people their life's meaning. There can… — Sheila Heti Life 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… — Sheila Heti Clothes Copy Share Image
There was not an awareness of pop culture in the household. There was a lot of respect for working hard, and for… — Sheila Heti Achievement Copy Share Image
There are certain people who do not feel like they were raised by wolves, and they are the ones who make the… — Sheila Heti Certain Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I think that I felt like I could only live one way, and I had to figure out… — Sheila Heti Decision 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… — Sheila Heti Chance Copy Share Image
I think making friends you can work with is a skill like any other, developing those particular kinds of intimacies. They're intimacies… — Sheila Heti Developing 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
I'm in a serious monogamous relationship, and I don't want to keep having different boyfriends, and I have this instead - with… — Sheila Heti Art Copy Share Image
Tove Jansson was the most successful Finnish illustrator and writer of children's books of her day, and she was the most widely… — Sheila Heti Artist 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
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 Imagining 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… — Sheila Heti Death Copy Share Image
I don't really have a schedule; I just get up in the morning. I work at home. I don't feel that my… — Sheila Heti Home Copy Share Image
