Lloyd Alexander Quotes

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

I want to be invisible.

It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.

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 did everything I could to remain anonymous for as long as possible.

I spend most of my life not wanting to be found, and actually, I'm pretty good at it.

I stay hidden. I'm sort of hard to find.

I manage to hide in my movies.

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.

The best hiding spots are not the most hidden; they're merely the least searched.

I recommend hiding for a good year and having no pregnancy style. That's what I recommend. If you can do it, hide. Never leave the house.

Among the monsters, I am well hidden; who looks for a leaf in a forest?

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

There is little or no magic about them, except the ordinary everyday sort which helps them to disappear quietly and quickly when large stupid folk like you and me come blundering along, making a noise like elephants which they can hear a mile off.

I have a great way of disappearing, and I'm able to do things people would never imagine. I'm often not recognized because I'm easy to hide if I change my hairstyle or put on a hat. I disappear very easily. That's not hard for me to do.

I would say invisibility would be sort of a fun power to have just to see what it was like to move through the world and not be looked at.

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 used to wear disguises, like hats and false beards, just to walk around and avoid attention.

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

There will be roughly 80 million people with a grievance who will be looking for me. I do not want them to find me.

I knew I was born at the North but hoped nobody would find it out. I looked upon the misfortune as something so shrouded by time and distance that maybe nobody remembered it.

After having supplied myself with provisions from Mr. Travis's, I scratched a hole under a pile of fence rails in a field, where I concealed myself for six weeks, never leaving my hiding place but for a few minutes in the dead of night to get water, which was very near.

There's no hiding place for someone of my size.

Sure, nobody ever recognises me. I'm always scurrying around London under a hat and looking like a homeless person.

I'm pretty good at going incognito.