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Sheila Heti Quotes

Canadian - Writer | December 25, 1976 -

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 embroilment. With a friendship, you can choose a little bit more how to behave. You can be guided more.

Friendship Relationship Art Choose

A woman will always be made to feel like a criminal, whatever choice she makes, however hard she tries. Mothers feel like criminals. Non-mothers do, too.

Woman Feel Choice Will She Hard

Nonfiction, to me, feels like an argument, whereas a novel is like a series of questions.

Me Questions Argument Nonfiction

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

Women Children Together Help Without

You think you're writing the most important book, you think you're writing the most stupid book, and you never really know before it's done that it's going to be done.

Writing Stupid Book Think You Know

When you're writing, I think a big part of writing comes out of an attempt to understand yourself. You're dealing with emotions and thoughts that are native to you. So that probably winds up in your characters.

Yourself Thoughts Writing Think You

Many of the traits in my characters are exaggerations of things I see in myself. But in 'How Should a Person Be?' I wasn't trying to write about myself so much as a combination of myself and these women I was seeing in our culture.

Women Myself Culture Trying Seeing

Writing makes everything else in my life okay; it makes everything make sense.

Life Writing My Life Okay Everything

Few writers push the reader away with the coolness, dignity, and faint melancholy of Fleur Jaeggy.

Push Dignity Away Melancholy Few

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

Friend Home Discipline Sweet Theatre

I don't think 'Motherhood' is a map for women. I would never say that it's a template for every woman in response to her biology.

Women Woman Motherhood Think Biology

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 top of that when I'm writing.

Women Woman Writing Want Top Need

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