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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
- “I find that when I'm in a relationship, I'm just so 'in it,' you couldn't even call it an art; it's such embr…”Sheila Heti
- “Few writers push the reader away with the coolness, dignity, and faint melancholy of Fleur Jaeggy.”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
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- “Writing is a tribute to solitude. It is choosing introversion over extroversion, lonely hours/days/weeks/year…”Elif Safak
- “All writers are exiles: some by circumstance, some by choice.”Marty Rubin
- “Beyond any role that I ever had, really early on as a stand-up, I would see actors decide to try it and they…”Patton Oswalt
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Books by Sheila Heti
How should a person be?
2013
Women in clothes
2014
Alphabetical Diaries
2024
Ticknor
2007