Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

If someone asked if I I'd want no one to recognise me anymore, I'd take that option, I think.

Sometimes it is a relief to be invisible

I don't like being rumbled, I like to be invisible.

I like mainly to be invisible, to sort of drift around unseen in the world.

One of the things I find really hard and view as a massive drag... is that I'm losing my ability to be completely anonymous.

I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren't self-portraits. Sometimes I disappear.

I often feel like I could fall off the face of the Earth. As long as 'Mama' was around, nobody would really miss me. People really think of her as an actual person. People all the time see me and ask, 'Where's Mama?' Like she should be with me.

I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.

I'm very much a bit of a ghost presence.

I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.

It's hard being visible, so I've made myself invisible.

I'm anxious about losing anonymity.

I was overlooked long before anyone knew who I was.

It's nice to have some anonymity and still be low key.

I'm 5-foot-5, and I'll wear a big parka and put the hood up, and nobody gives me a second glance.

I wanted to be able to go shopping without people looking to see if I really was one of the world's 10 most beautiful women. I longed to be myself.

No one recognizes me. And I hope that I can always go out without being recognized. Maybe that limits you in some way but I like to be able to pull my hair back in a ponytail and get groceries without anyone noticing.

I still feel like no one knows who I am. I still feel anonymous.

No one looks twice at me when they're around, and 'Cinderella' has made no difference. And I know that isn't going to change.

The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me.

I am quite fortunate, because I can still be quite incognito. If you go out looking for attention, then you'll attract it, but if you're just getting on with your life, particularly in London where everyone is engrossed in what they're doing, you can keep a measure of anonymity.

I'm a shadow whisperer: I hide in the shadows. And I tend to avoid places where I might get photographed and end up with my picture in the press.

There's a part of me that wishes no one knew anything about me, but it's just not realistic.

I was not a name; I was not a face. I was not going to finance a movie. No one was going to come and pay tickets to see me.

I didn't like the attention and that's what's awesome about Rice. I would go to class, walk around campus and do my thing. No one even noticed who I was.