Sheila Heti Quotes
One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could be me.
We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.
There was not an awareness of pop culture in the household. There was a lot of respect for working hard, and for intellectual and professional achievement.
Maybe that's good to not feel like you have to keep up when there's so much to keep up with right now. It's bottomless.
There's so much writing I could have done and so many ideas that I had and so many things I wanted to work on that I didn't. I like too much having things in my head rather than doing the work.
To go on and on about your soul is to miss the whole point of life. I could say that with more certainty if I knew the whole point of life.
Sometimes you do have people who are great at curating; sometimes you have people curating who don't know what they're do.
I've always had individual friends, but I didn't find the people I wanted to learn from as an adult until my midtwenties.
When I was in high school, and even to a degree while I was in university, I wasn't on the Internet. So it's not as embedded in my soul, that kind of way of being.
When I'm editing, I try to bring out some dramatic structure. I think it is about theater in some way; it is a little play.
It's so hard to live that one needs a support around life. We can't live without some supernatural support.
Somehow I had turned myself into the worst thing in the world: I was just another man who wanted to teach me something!
I do feel it. And I've felt it my whole life, that the supernatural has a role in the world.
You have to know where the funny is, and if you know where the funny is, you know everything.
If now in some ways I drink too much, it’s not that I lack a reverence for the world.
