Most fiction writers are driven to find their own ‘voice,’ but I am more interested in the voices of others. Sheila Heti Read Quote
There’s so much anxiety about being understood – and being understood through what you wear. Sheila Heti Read Quote
In my experience, women who are taken seriously take themselves seriously. It’s not what you wear. Sheila Heti Read Quote
Everyone is their own kind of poet – you can’t miss it when their words are written down. Sheila Heti Read Quote
The reason I write is because I have questions. What I don’t want is for people to forget that I’m a novelist and think I’m a sociologist or something. I don’t want to feel trapped into a corner where I don’t belong. Sheila Heti Read Quote
There’s something about a woman’s life choices that invites commentary, whether it’s been invited or not. Sheila Heti Read Quote
I have this memory of being 15 years old, sitting with a friend on the steps of a little bookstore on Bloor Street in Toronto and saying, ‘I’ll never take money for my writing!’ I had such idealism about this idea of trading your soul for money. Sheila Heti Read Quote
Laurie Simmons began showing her photographs in New York in the late ’70s: black-and-white and then candy-colored scenarios with plastic dolls in 1950s-style domestic interiors. Sheila Heti Read Quote
