Author: Sheila Heti

Quotes

Only in our failures are we absolutely alone. Only in the pursuit of failure can a person really be free. Losers may be the avant garde of the modern age.

Only in our failures are we absolutely alone. Only in the pursuit of failure can a person really be free. Losers may be the avant garde of the modern age.

- Sheila Heti

Sometimes you can't write a novel for weeks and weeks, but it's good for your self-esteem to work on something else.

Sometimes you can't write a novel for weeks and weeks, but it's good for your self-esteem to work on something else.

- Sheila Heti

Trying to live the image of the life which you have in your head... it's really hard not to do that, but I do think maybe it's cheating.

Trying to live the image of the life which you have in your head... it's really hard not to do that, but I do think maybe it's cheating.

- Sheila Heti

For me, a memoir is supposed to be understood as a representation of your life, whereas a novel is self-consciously symbolic.

For me, a memoir is supposed to be understood as a representation of your life, whereas a novel is self-consciously symbolic.

- Sheila Heti

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