Latest Sheila Heti Quotes from Interviews

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• I think a lot of people try to edit themselves out and I think that's a big mistake, because the person being interviewed is responding to a person, and if you don't know who that person is then you don't really know what's going on with the person being interviewed.

  Sheila Heti

  Mistake, Thinking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

• In the transcribing and the editing, you want some retention of how the person speaks - you don't want to edit out all of the hesitations and idiosyncrasies. And to get people to say something they've never said before. That's big.

  Sheila Heti

  Editing, People, Want

  Source: therumpus.net

• It's fun to give pleasure to people.

  Sheila Heti

  Fun, People, Giving

  Source: therumpus.net

• When I'm editing, I try to bring out some dramatic structure. I think it is about theater in some way; it is a little play.

  Sheila Heti

  Thinking, Editing, Play

  Source: therumpus.net

• My parents are both scientists, and I was raised without god.

  Sheila Heti

  Parent, Scientist, Raised

  Source: therumpus.net

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

  Sheila Heti

  Roles, World, Whole Life

  Source: therumpus.net

• It's nice to go into your doom. It's so liberating.

  Sheila Heti

  Nice, Doom, Liberating

  Source: therumpus.net

• It's so hard to live that one needs a support around life. We can't live without some supernatural support.

  Sheila Heti

  Support, Needs, Hard

  Source: therumpus.net

• There are times when things are clear in your head and your heart and everything comes all aligned and it's easy and it just feels good to do something. But most of the time it's not like that. Most of the time there's conflict between your head and your heart.

  Sheila Heti

  Heart, Feel Good, Conflict

  Source: therumpus.net

• There's so much writing I could have done and so many ideas that I had and so many things I wanted to work on that I didn't. I like too much having things in my head rather than doing the work.

  Sheila Heti

  Writing, Ideas, Done

  Source: therumpus.net

• 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 your lover and your relationship with your family and your relationship with your work - sometimes it's really great; sometimes it's non-existent, sometimes it's fruitful.

  Sheila Heti

  Art, Numbers, Literature

  Source: therumpus.net

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

  Sheila Heti

  Trying, Kind, Working A Lot

  Source: therumpus.net

• Maybe that's good to not feel like you have to keep up when there's so much to keep up with right now. It's bottomless.

  Sheila Heti

  Like You, Feels, Right Now

  Source: therumpus.net

• When I was in high school, and even to a degree while I was in university, I wasn't on the Internet. So it's not as embedded in my soul, that kind of way of being.

  Sheila Heti

  School, Soul, Degrees

  Source: therumpus.net

• There was not an awareness of pop culture in the household. There was a lot of respect for working hard, and for intellectual and professional achievement.

  Sheila Heti

  Achievement, Intellectual, Culture

  Source: therumpus.net

• Sometimes you do have people who are great at curating; sometimes you have people curating who don't know what they're do.

  Sheila Heti

  People, Sometimes, Knows

  Source: therumpus.net

• I've always had individual friends, but I didn't find the people I wanted to learn from as an adult until my midtwenties.

  Sheila Heti

  People, Adults, Individual

  "Should I Go to Grad School?: An Interview with Sheila Heti". Interview with Jessica Loudis, www.newyorker.com. May 5, 2014.

• 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 better. Instead of having sex, we have art.

  Sheila Heti

  Art, Sex, Men

  "Should I Go to Grad School?: An Interview with Sheila Heti". Interview with Jessica Loudis, www.newyorker.com. May 5, 2014.

• I feel like one can have all of that as a writer; you're writing, you're reading, you're talking to interesting and intelligent people. Your life is structured around whatever book you're writing, and so is your reading and so are many of your conversations.

  Sheila Heti

  Book, Reading, Writing

  "Should I Go to Grad School?: An Interview with Sheila Heti". Interview with Jessica Loudis, www.newyorker.com. May 5, 2014.

• I studied art history and philosophy and took economics and political science classes. I just took whatever I wanted and I didn't worry about grades and I read and learned a lot, and I didn't have much of a social life, so it was deeply absorbing.

  Sheila Heti

  Art, Philosophy, Class

  "Should I Go to Grad School?: An Interview with Sheila Heti". Interview with Jessica Loudis, www.newyorker.com. May 5, 2014.