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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) →Keep reading Sheila Heti
- “Only in our failures are we absolutely alone. Only in the pursuit of failure can a person really be free. Los…”Sheila Heti
- “Everyone's always telling themselves stories about their lives, writers or not.”Sheila Heti
- “For me, a memoir is supposed to be understood as a representation of your life, whereas a novel is self-consc…”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-c…”Sheila Heti
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Books by Sheila Heti
How should a person be?
2013
Women in clothes
2014
Alphabetical Diaries
2024
Ticknor
2007