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
Today, I defined 'sentimental' to myself as a feeling about the idea of a feeling. — Sheila Heti 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 Copy Share Image
We're so sure of what our unlived lives would have been like that we feel guilty for not living them - for… — 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. — Sheila Heti Being Copy Share Image
Our delusions of omniscience play a role in our ideas of not only what we want but also what we want to… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time. — Sheila Heti 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 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 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 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
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 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 mid-twenties. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
Most fiction writers are driven to find their own 'voice,' but I am more interested in the voices of others. — Sheila Heti Fiction 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
My feminism is just part of my being - a part of my understanding of the world. — Sheila Heti Being 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
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
There's so much anxiety about being understood - and being understood through what you wear. — Sheila Heti 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
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
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
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 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
Fiction is a way for writers to preserve their friendships and their romances! — Sheila Heti Fiction Copy Share Image
Writing makes everything else in my life okay; it makes everything make sense. — Sheila Heti 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 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
“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 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
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 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 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 Copy Share Image
