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Sheila Heti Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: canadian
Birth: December 25, 1976

Topics

Push Dignity Away Melancholy Few

In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.

Style World Become Emotion Smooth

I thought, 'O.K., if I'm a valuable person and an independent entity, then I don't have to worry about what people think of me. I can reach out now.'

John Cameron Mitchell

People Me Think Thought Reach Worry

I think I grew up with the idea that there was something comforting about preparing food.

Food Think Up Comforting Something

Biological energy comes from the sun. Light energy harvested by photosynthesis in chloroplasts and phototropic bacteria becomes stored in carbohydrates and fats. This stored energy can be released by oxidative metabolism in the form of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and used as fuel for other biological processes.

Light Sun Energy Used Bacteria Fuel

The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.

Anatole Broyard

Book Reading Talking Back More Like

There is a difference between giving directions and giving direction.

Direction Giving Difference Between

I'm a pop princess at heart. Pop is about distilling what you want to say and making it easy. And the way I write isn't about making things easy. It's a weird juxtaposition.

Heart Weird Easy You Princess Want

You can meet somebody at a club. You can meet somebody at a restaurant. But maybe that person is not on the same page. Maybe that person is like, 'I'm starting out, I don't want to get married now.' Or, 'I don't want to have kids.'

Juan Pablo Galavis

Girl Walk Judge Someone Street See

The special skills necessary for being a storyteller are really very simple. I actually talked about them in a book of mine called 'Tell Me a Tale.' Those basic skills are to listen, to observe, to remember, and to share.

Simple Me Book Remember Skills Tell

I didn't grow up with a lot of money, so my mom didn't have random money to buy me a car, and I didn't have money to have a car unless I worked, so I didn't get a car until I got my first job at 18.

Car Money Job Me Mom Random

The Internet has exceeded our collective expectations as a revolutionary spring of information, news, and ideas. It is essential that we keep that spring flowing. We must not thwart the Internet's availability by taxing access to it.

Spring Ideas Expectations Internet

E! has just become a sad, sad place to live. They don't know what they're doing; they have no ideas... everything they do just is a failure.

Chelsea Handler

Failure Live Sad Ideas Doing Place

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