“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.” PeopleFeelsWritingBookLife IsReadingInterestingTalkingConversationIntelligent Author:Sheila Heti
“I've always had individual friends, but I didn't find the people I wanted to learn from as an adult until my midtwenties.” PeopleWantedIndividualAdults Author:Sheila Heti
“Sometimes you do have people who are great at curating; sometimes you have people curating who don't know what they're do.” PeopleKnowsSometimes Author:Sheila Heti
“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.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsTryingPersonsBigsMistakeRespondingEditsBig Mistake Author:Sheila Heti
“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.” PeopleWantPersonsSaidBigsSpeakEditingEditsHesitationIdiosyncrasiesRetentionTranscribing Author:Sheila Heti
“There are certain people who do not feel like they were raised by wolves, and they are the ones who make the world tick. They are the ones who keep everything functioning so the rest of us can worry about what sort of person we should be.” PeopleWorldFeelsShouldPersonsCertainWorryRaisedTick Book:How Should a Person Be?: A Novel from Life Source: How Should a Person Be?: A Novel from Life
“I hadn't realized until this week that in [Moses'] youth he killed a man, an Egyptian, and buried him under some sandI used to worry that I wasn't enough like Jesus, but yesterday I remembered who was my king; a man who, when God addressed him and told him to lead the people out of Egypt, said, 'But I'm not a good talker! Couldn't you ask my brother instead?' So it should not be so hard to come at this life with a bit of honesty. I don't need to be great like the leader of the Christian people. I can be a bumbling, murderous coward like the King of the Jews.” PeopleMenNeedsShouldSaidI CanHardEnoughChristianUsedAsksJesusBitsLeaderWorryWeekHonestyYouthBrotherKingsJewYesterdayThis LifeRememberedMy BrotherCowardBuriedEgyptMosesEgyptianTalkers Author:Sheila Heti
