Nonfiction, to me, feels like an argument, whereas a novel is like a series of questions. — Sheila Heti Argument 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 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
Everyone is their own kind of poet - you can't miss it when their words are written down. — Sheila Heti 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
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 add something to the world should be the question, not not adding something to the world. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
Women without children can help mothers, and we can just be all in this together. — Sheila Heti Children Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people try to edit themselves out and I think that's a big mistake, because the person being… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
'The Chairs are Where the People Go' was told to me by my friend Misha Glouberman; I typed as he talked. In… — Sheila Heti Books Copy Share Image
I don't think about the reader when I'm writing, but I do when I'm editing, of course. For instance, I self-consciously didn't… — Sheila Heti 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 Copy Share Image
Growing up, I never knew that Raffi turned down celebrity endorsements, TV shows, and specials and refused to make merchandise, but it… — Sheila Heti 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
In 'Sweet Days of Discipline,' the narrator, years after graduating, fortuitously encounters her old friend Frederique at a movie theatre. Frederique invites… — Sheila Heti Discipline Copy Share Image
I find that when I'm in a relationship, I'm just so 'in it,' you couldn't even call it an art; it's such… — Sheila Heti Art Copy Share Image
“It is their everlasting switching that is the dangerous thing, not what they choose” — Sheila Heti Choice Copy Share Image
I kind of try to resist working a lot. I'm not a very disciplined worker. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
You have to know where the funny is, and if you know where the funny is, you know everything. — Sheila Heti Comedy Copy Share Image
Everyone's always telling themselves stories about their lives, writers or not. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
As a journalist, you don't tend to interview people with a view to becoming their friend. You can't expect that. It's not… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
“I know that character exists from the outside alone. I know that inside the body there's just temperature.” — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
I don't wear shoes that are going to give me any pain. I just cannot do that. — Sheila Heti 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
“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
In my experience, women who are taken seriously take themselves seriously. It's not what you wear. — Sheila Heti Experience 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
No child, through her own will, can pull a mother out of her suffering, and as an adult, I have been very… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
A line drawn with love can make us as vulnerable as what the line depicts. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives. — Sheila Heti Fiction 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
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
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
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
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
I didn't study English literature - I studied philosophy at university - so Kierkegaard, Nietzsche - these people are among the most… — Sheila Heti 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 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
