“I felt very alone when I was writing. Grief separates you from other people“ – Sheila Heti
, then how mothering itself is like making something in your image, someone who grows up to critique and challenge you., I was really writing to an audience. I wanted it to occupy a culture. This time, it was more for myself – or if not that, to serve a more cosmic purpose. There’s no emotional or intellectual map for humanity as I think there is assigned to motherhood. There was a very deep reason to write. I wrote that book so my mother would stop crying.
SH: We’ve been given this opportunity to all be public critics. I can find that upsetting. I wanted to find the beauty in this swelling of criticism – not just in our culture, but in a cosmology, a creation story. Criticism has been beneficial for social and justice movements, but for art it’s a more complicated question. Bigger than the internet!
SH: I really love unfinished feeling works of art. Like a Monet sketch at the Met – half is pencil and half is paint. It’s the most transfixing. To see the process and to have it be unperfected and unfinished … I love that living, yet to be lived feel. So the question … we all want to get rid of all the suffering on Earth. We want utopia. I wanted to make the case in the book that there's something amazing to find in turmoil.
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