Best quotes by Sheila Heti on Life

Checkout quotes by Sheila Heti on Life

• ‟ Writing makes everything else in my life okay; it makes everything make sense.

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• ‟ Writing makes everything else in my life okay; it makes everything make sense.

  - Sheila Heti
  

• ‟ Tove Jansson was the most successful Finnish illustrator and writer of children's books of her day, and she was the most widely read Finn abroad. She began her life as an artist early - she had her first drawing published at fifteen.

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

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ If you want to write from life, you can't really write a story. People are always changing, and I think if we didn't look the same day-to-day, and our self weren't always in our body, would we even be the same? The continuity is in our bodies.

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• ‟ To me, something that's beautiful in terms of a book is something that lives inside the reader both as a discrete and complete thing, but also something that seeps out into their life and thoughts.

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• ‟ There's something about a woman's life choices that invites commentary, whether it's been invited or not.

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• ‟ Women, post-menopause, go back to how they were before they started menstruating, and there's this great freedom in a woman's life when she reaches the end of that reproductive cycle, and that most women come into their own strength, the same strength they had as a girl.

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