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
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 feel like every single time I've published a book, there's some little light in me that goes out. I've seen the… — Sheila Heti Books 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
My feminism is just part of my being - a part of my understanding of the world. — Sheila Heti Being Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, and even to a degree while I was in university, I wasn't on the Internet. So… — Sheila Heti Degrees 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
We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time. — Sheila Heti Bores 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
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
Toronto is my home. It's where my family is. I think I feel an obligation to be within subway distance of the… — Sheila Heti Distance 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 Feels 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
“Had anyone suggested at the time that it would not be the Egypt of the pharaohs that would survive and change the… — Sheila Heti Judaism Copy Share Image
You have to know where the funny is, and if you know where the funny is, you know everything. — Sheila Heti Funny 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
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
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
Sometimes you do have people who are great at curating; sometimes you have people curating who don't know what they're do. — Sheila Heti Knows Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives. — Sheila Heti Fiction 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
Raffi Cavoukian was born in Cairo in 1948 and moved with his Armenian parents to Toronto when he was 10. — Sheila Heti Born 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
It has long been known to me that certain objects want you as much as you want them. These are the ones… — Sheila Heti Certain Copy Share Image
