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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.
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- “Renown is something people have always wanted, but maybe what's modern is that it's considered a virtue, this…”Sheila Heti
- “I don't know what that line is between fiction and non-fiction that other people have in their minds, but to…”Sheila Heti
- “I wanted to talk to a lot of women about their experiences along the path to motherhood - or along the path t…”Sheila Heti
- “A daughter is more difficult than a rose.”Sheila Heti
Explore Feminism
- “I didn't plan on either children or writing. Once I realized that writing satisfied me in some enormous way,…”Toni Morrison
- “If you are a feminist and are not a vegan, you are ignoring the exploitation of female nonhumans and the comm…”Gary L. Francione
- “Feminism was good for me, as were any number of causes, but as I developed as a thinking person, the truisms…”Siri Hustvedt
Explore Writing
- “I didn't plan on either children or writing. Once I realized that writing satisfied me in some enormous way,…”Toni Morrison
- “You can use your means in a good and bad way. In German-speaking art, we had such a bad experience with the T…”Michael Haneke
- “I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take o…”Karen Blixen
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Books by Sheila Heti
How should a person be?
2013
Women in clothes
2014
Alphabetical Diaries
2024
Ticknor
2007