Every choice you make has higher stakes - or that's how it feels. — Sheila Heti Choice Copy Share Image
My parents are both scientists, and I was raised without god. — Sheila Heti Catholic 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 Copy Share Image
Few writers push the reader away with the coolness, dignity, and faint melancholy of Fleur Jaeggy. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
Today, I defined 'sentimental' to myself as a feeling about the idea of a feeling. — Sheila Heti 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
There's something threatening about a woman who is not occupied with children... What sort of trouble will she make? — Sheila Heti Children Copy Share Image
The main problem I've always had with fashion media is that women are encouraged to copy other women. — Sheila Heti 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 Copy Share Image
Then if he's sore with me, let him dump my ass. That will just give me more time to be a genius. — Sheila Heti 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 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
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
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
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 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
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
Writing makes everything else in my life okay; it makes everything make sense. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way for writers to preserve their friendships and their romances! — Sheila Heti Fiction Copy Share Image
I didn't wander into motherhood or nonmotherhood unconsciously, recklessly. I gave it due consideration. — Sheila Heti Consideration Copy Share Image
“To me it’s also talking about how it’s okay to have your own identity in the face of all this pressure to… — Sheila Heti Identity Copy Share Image
Trying to live the image of the life which you have in your head... it's really hard not to do that, but… — Sheila Heti Cheating Copy Share Image
I wanted to talk to a lot of women about their experiences along the path to motherhood - or along the path… — Sheila Heti Mother Copy Share Image
There's something about a woman's life choices that invites commentary, whether it's been invited or not. — Sheila Heti 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
I just always try to respond to what I'm most interested in at the moment - that hasn't changed. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
There's so much anxiety about being understood - and being understood through what you wear. — Sheila Heti 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 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
“The most compelling women are the ones who are distinctive, who are most like themselves and least like other women.” — Sheila Heti 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 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
“boundaries, Sheila. Barriers. We need them. They let you love someone. Otherwise you might kill them.” — Sheila Heti Barriers 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 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
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
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
“But style, I also learned, is not about strictly copying others, because style is not transferable.” — Sheila Heti Style Copy Share Image
