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I had a strong propensity, which I still have, to be invisible. In grade school, I'd try to disappear and become formless. I lived in a very imaginary world. I loved poetry and wrote my first novel when I was 9. It was about a little girl and the people she met in the woods.

— Amanda Plummer

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

As a boy I believed I could make myself invisible. I'm not sure that I ever could, but I certainly had the ability to pass unnoticed.

— Terence Stamp

I loved reading when I grew up but did feel totally invisible because I couldn't see myself and my life reflected in the books I was reading.

— Malorie Blackman

I was kind of an invisible girl when I was young.

— Tayari Jones

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

— Ralph Ellison

It would be cool to be invisible, but I'm afraid of what people would say about me if they didn't know I was there. Some things are better left unknown.

— James Marsden

Had I not stepped into the saddle in the first place, entire cultures, histories, and most importantly, profound connections with people and animals whom I now counted as my friends would have otherwise passed by, invisible.

— Tim Cope

I want to be invisible.

— Megan Fox

I'm not writing non-fiction. I don't feel anything about me as a kid was unique. Except that I had more interest in being alone and using my imagination.

— John Irving

I would sit in my room and become hysterical about the wild incredible story I was writing. And I thought I was writing realism. It never occurred to me that I was writing absurdity. Realism and absurdity are so similar in the lives of American blacks one cannot tell the difference.

— Chester Himes

✗Opposing Perspectives

As the writer of a pseudonymous book, I gave up my own accumulated history as a novelist and became what I had been as a child: unnamed, unidentified, unacknowledged. Invisible. In a very real sense, what I hope for in the process of imagining a book is to disappear.

— Susan Shreve