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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.

~Sheila Heti

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When you're writing, I think a big part of writing comes out of an attempt to understand yourself. You're dealing with emotions and thoughts that are native to you. So that probably winds up in your characters.

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Many of the traits in my characters are exaggerations of things I see in myself. But in 'How Should a Person Be?' I wasn't trying to write about myself so much as a combination of myself and these women I was seeing in our culture.

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I just always felt whole when I was writing. I felt this kind of beautiful privacy that I never felt in any other way. I feel like there's this great fullness to being alone, and writing is a really vivid way and a really magical way of being alone.

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

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Few writers push the reader away with the coolness, dignity, and faint melancholy of Fleur Jaeggy.

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A daughter is more difficult than a rose.

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In 'Sweet Days of Discipline,' the narrator, years after graduating, fortuitously encounters her old friend Frederique at a movie theatre. Frederique invites her home.

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I don't think 'Motherhood' is a map for women. I would never say that it's a template for every woman in response to her biology.

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I've written about women's lives, and I just want to write about them from being a woman. I don't need feminism on top of that when I'm writing.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Writer

Born: December 25th, 1976

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