Hiding Quote by Cord Jefferson

In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.

— Mika

My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so: I am…

— William Trevor

“The stories don't fit back together, and it's the end of stories, those devices we carry like shells and shields and blinkers and occasionally…

— Rebecca Solnit

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.

— David Leavitt

“I think people are often quite unaware of their inner selves, their other selves, their imaginative selves, the selves that aren’t on show in…

— Jeannette Winterson

I don't like people probing into my life, so I reveal as little as possible or lie about it as much as need be…

— David Bowie

It is easy to forget how mysterious and mighty stories are. They do their work in silence, invisibly. They work with all the internal…

— Ben Okri

In the beginning of my career, everybody knew it, it was no secret that I loved the spotlight. I basked in it. And then…

— Michael Sorrentino

“I started wondering about life stories, how each one of us has one that isn't apparent at first glance, what we tell the world…

— Laura Wiess

Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others.

— Jodi Picoult

One of my least favorite things about being even remotely recognizable is that I'm not allowed to watch in the same way anymore. You…

— Amy Adams

Telling my story has not been easy for me. I've had to dredge up memories I would have rather forgotten. The lonely, anxiety-ridden months…

— Chirlane McCray