Nature Quote by Sheila Heti

I believe there's a platonic ideal for every book that is written, like there's the perfect version of the book somewhere in the ether,…

— Sheila Heti

I really enjoyed the process of 'Women in Clothes,' but there's no way I would have done that again. It felt more like being…

— Sheila Heti

“style is about knowing what you like and why you like it, more than anything else. GRACE”

— Sheila Heti

I'd rather that people could be both entertained and given rest while reading my book than for someone to have to put the book…

— Sheila Heti

“I know that character exists from the outside alone. I know that inside the body there's just temperature.”

— Sheila Heti

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 want to…

— Sheila Heti

He’s just another man who wants to teach me something.

— Sheila Heti

“She had thought that when someone died, it would be like they went into a different room. She had not known that life itself…

— Sheila Heti

It's so weird how our existence hinges on just absolute crazy chance, but it feels so essential. It's like, 'Nothing would be here if…

— Sheila Heti

In 'Sweet Days of Discipline,' the narrator, years after graduating, fortuitously encounters her old friend Frederique at a movie theatre. Frederique invites her home.

— Sheila Heti

Every choice you make has higher stakes - or that's how it feels.

— Sheila Heti

Women without children can help mothers, and we can just be all in this together.

— Sheila Heti