Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

- Sheila Heti

I hadn't realized until this week that in [Moses'] youth he killed a man, an Egyptian, and buried him under some sandI used to worry that I wasn't en…

- Sheila Heti

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 h…

- Sheila Heti

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…

- Sheila Heti

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

- Sheila Heti

I do feel it. And I've felt it my whole life, that the supernatural has a role in the world.

- Sheila Heti

You have to know where the funny is, and if you know where the funny is, you know everything.

- Sheila Heti

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 …

- Sheila Heti

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 be…

- Sheila Heti