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About Sheila Heti
Canadian writer in English
Sheila Heti is a Canadian writer who works in English and is known for fiction and essays. She has 95 quotes on the site. Her work is associated with contemporary literary writing, and she is known for a voice that moves between personal reflection and sharper cultural observation. The available facts identify her simply as a writer, with no further biographical details given here.
More from Sheila Heti (95 quotes) →Other sayings from Sheila Heti
- “There's something threatening about a woman who is not occupied with children... What sort of trouble will sh…”Sheila Heti
- “Our delusions of omniscience play a role in our ideas of not only what we want but also what we want to escap…”Sheila Heti
- “Trying to live the image of the life which you have in your head... it's really hard not to do that, but I do…”Sheila Heti
- “When you're writing, I think a big part of writing comes out of an attempt to understand yourself. You're dea…”Sheila Heti
Explore Melancholy
- “Ray Bradbury's connections to fantasy, space, cinema, to the macabre and the melancholy, were all born of his…”Sam Weller
- “Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happ…”Anthony Trollope
- “I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.But he never liked anyone who--our friends,' said C…”Virginia Woolf
Explore Writing
- “I love just being an actor. I love writing, but I'm not a writer. I have no aspirations to direct.”Charlie Weber
- “I was writing a scene where a guy was choking another guy to death. You can go online and type 'chokeholds' a…”Daniel H. Wilson
- “I figure anytime you put an adjective before 'writer,' it's a way of dismissing the writer.”Stephen Graham Jones
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Books by Sheila Heti
How should a person be?
2013
Women in clothes
2014
Alphabetical Diaries
2024
Ticknor
2007