172 Quotes by Sheila Heti

The thing to do when you're feeling ambivalent is to wait.

Everyone's always telling themselves stories about their lives, writers or not.

I wished to have the time to put together a world view, but there was never enough time, and also, those who had it seemed to have had it from a very young age; they didn't begin at forty.

There is a kind of sadness in not wanting the things that give so many other people their life's meaning. There can be sadness at not living out a more universal story - the supposed life cycle.

There's something threatening about a woman who is not occupied with children... What sort of trouble will she make?

Just because you are alive does not mean you have to give life.

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

I remember going over proofs of this book - my first book - back in 2001, in a bar in Toronto called the 'Victory Cafe', and thinking sadly to myself, 'This is a very good manuscript but not a very good book.' I don't know what I meant by that, but I was pretty heartbroken and sure it was true.

I just always try to respond to what I'm most interested in at the moment - that hasn't changed.