Author: Sheila Heti

Quotes

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

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

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

Women without children can help mothers, and we can just be all in this together.

Women without children can help mothers, and we can just be all in this together.

- Sheila Heti

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