Quotes by Sheila Heti

Sheila Heti

I always had a fantasy of meeting a girl who was as serious as I was.

Fantasy

Girl

Serious

I feel like one can have all of that as a writer; you’re writing, you’re reading, you’re talking to interesting and intelligent people. Your life is structured around whatever book you’re writing, and so is your reading and so are many of your conversations.

Book

Reading

Writing

I kind of try to resist working a lot. I’m not a very disciplined worker.

Kind

Trying

Working A Lot

I spend most of my time in my head. You can always work out solutions and satisfactions there. Maybe you can’t actually bring them about, but there’s usually a pleasant pillow of time between imagining you can, and realizing you cannot.

Satisfaction

Thinking

Work Out

I’m in a serious monogamous relationship, and I don’t want to keep having different boyfriends, and I have this instead – with men and women. It’s better. Instead of having sex, we have art.

Art

Men

Sex

I’ve always had individual friends, but I didn’t find the people I wanted to learn from as an adult until my midtwenties.

Adults

Individual

People

In the transcribing and the editing, you want some retention of how the person speaks – you don’t want to edit out all of the hesitations and idiosyncrasies. And to get people to say something they’ve never said before. That’s big.

Editing

People

Want

It has long been known to me that certain objects want you as much as you want them. These are the ones that become important, the objects that you hold dear. The others fade from your life entirely. You wanted them, but they did not want you in return.

Important

Long

Want

It’s fun to give pleasure to people.

Fun

Giving

People

Literature and art are one of a number of relationships I have with the world. Like you have relationships with your friends and a relationship with your lover and your relationship with your family and your relationship with your work – sometimes it’s really great; sometimes it’s non-existent, sometimes it’s fruitful.

Art

Literature

Numbers

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Achievement

Adults

Art

Book

Bores You

Conflict

Culture

Done

Editing

Effects

Example

Fantasy

Feel Good

Feels

Fiction

Fun

Genius

Girl

Giving

Heart

Ideas

Ifs

Important

Individual

Intellectual

Kind

Knows

Like You

Literature

Long

Looks

Men

Mind

Numbers

Parent

People

Play

Raised

Reading

Right Now

Satisfaction

Scientist

Serious

Sex

Thinking

Trying

Want

Waste

Women

Work Out

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Quotes by Sheila Heti

Sheila Heti

I always had a fantasy of meeting a girl who was as serious as I was.

I feel like one can have all of that as a writer; you’re writing, you’re reading, you’re talking to interesting and intelligent people. Your life is structured around whatever book you’re writing, and so is your reading and so are many of your conversations.

I kind of try to resist working a lot. I’m not a very disciplined worker.

I spend most of my time in my head. You can always work out solutions and satisfactions there. Maybe you can’t actually bring them about, but there’s usually a pleasant pillow of time between imagining you can, and realizing you cannot.

I’m in a serious monogamous relationship, and I don’t want to keep having different boyfriends, and I have this instead – with men and women. It’s better. Instead of having sex, we have art.

I’ve always had individual friends, but I didn’t find the people I wanted to learn from as an adult until my midtwenties.

In the transcribing and the editing, you want some retention of how the person speaks – you don’t want to edit out all of the hesitations and idiosyncrasies. And to get people to say something they’ve never said before. That’s big.

It has long been known to me that certain objects want you as much as you want them. These are the ones that become important, the objects that you hold dear. The others fade from your life entirely. You wanted them, but they did not want you in return.

It’s fun to give pleasure to people.

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