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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
- “We're so sure of what our unlived lives would have been like that we feel guilty for not living them - for no…”Sheila Heti
- “Writing, for me, when I'm writing in the first-person, is like a form of acting. So as I'm writing, the chara…”Sheila Heti
- “I think that part of the reason I like collaboration so much is because it's something unexpected coming in,…”Sheila Heti
- “I think I prefer writing books because the work of art begins and ends with you - it's easier to know if you'…”Sheila Heti
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- “Novelists and the literary world play an important part in shaping languages. The Swahili they write influenc…”Enock Maregesi
- “To me, great writing - and when you can really make something wonderful out of it as an actor - is when your…”Bob Odenkirk
- “I talk to my readers on social networking sites, but I never tell them what the book is about. Writing is lon…”Paulo Coelho
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- “Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily comp…”Gary Wolf
- “I talk to my readers on social networking sites, but I never tell them what the book is about. Writing is lon…”Paulo Coelho
- “There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an o…”Carson McCullers
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Books by Sheila Heti
How should a person be?
2013
Women in clothes
2014
Alphabetical Diaries
2024
Ticknor
2007