Dave Eggers Quotes

People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.

I don't know... I don't want people to know everything about me.

We can’t always tell the whole story about ourselves.

I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.

I think you can decide how much of yourself you're willing to make public.

I didn't want to lose my sense of myself in my profession.

I actually think that secrets are just a part of human nature and that everybody should have some.

I had this thing about not giving too much of myself away, so I thought, if I sang lyrics, that's giving too much away. You know, I really didn't want to give myself away.

I find sharing intimate details with people that you don't know an interesting concept. I like to keep some things to myself.

There are things I've done in the past I'm not proud of - and I could talk about them if I wanted to - but I don't reveal my secrets... I prefer certain things to remain personal; there have to be boundaries. And I don't think you need a scandal to have an interesting story.

Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve so that people are never quite sure if they really know you.

But on the other hand I believe I'm a private person too, and I enjoy that aspect of my life as well.

I started thinking that if post modernism is about people opening up all their skeletons, I'm going the other way. I don't want anyone knowing anything about me anymore.

We all have our secrets. We all have our vulnerabilities.

I think having a private life that you only share with your nearest and dearest is important. Otherwise, who are you?

I don't know that I want to share all my most intimate secrets.

I want to be relatable. I want people to know who I am, but that doesn't mean you get to know everything about me and my life. I think that there's a fine line.

I didn't feel ever that people needed to know who I was.

I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.

I have never subscribed to public confessionals.

I think people kind of know me, although I am pretty private when it comes to my private life.

It's not important to me that everyone knows everything about me or that I reveal all that I am or have.

I don't like talking about myself.

I'm really not comfortable talking about my personal life.

I think you can tell stories and give perspectives and yet still keep stuff for yourself, too. I keep a lot of my life private, even in a public forum like writing.