Emily Giffin Quotes

You never know what goes on behind closed doors.

But I know all the things you're too sweet to know.

I read a whole bunch of bits and pieces over the years, obviously from the fan magazines and the rest of the stuff, and I just wanted to give a little more insight into what's happening in my personal life.

I have always wanted to know what's going on under the surface.

Most people have the wrong idea about me because I've been very private.

The last time when I was in a relationship, I used to talk about it, but the spotlight gets to your personal life. Wherever you go, people ask the same question. At times, it gets difficult. You work so much on a film, and people only want to know about your personal life. I feel bad that they don't talk about your work, but it's part of my job.

There will always be a slight difference between the reel and the real. Even my family might know 99 per cent about me, but there will be this one per cent about me that nobody will ever know. Being in this profession, I am fine with biopics or movies inspired by real-life-characters.

You know what actors are like. You can sometimes be like, 'Darling, darling, we love each other,' but you don't really know them.

Publicly, I've never talked about Argentina.

What I'm interested in is how your career choices can affect your private life, romantically or with your mom, your relatives, your friends, your hometown, and how media manipulates information - not newspapers or blogs, but the magazines that people impulse-buy that tell you what's hot and who's not.

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

You don't know that you'll ever have to talk about the skeleton in your closet.

Reviewers try to square the antics of a writer's life with the antics in the fiction. Even satirical verbal play is too often read and admired as autobiographical expression. And thanks to the democratic exposures of the web, it's easier than ever to document private experiences and divulge the most intimate secrets.

My book has a lot of parts of my life that people don't know about.

One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some weight to the hidden private life of ordinary people

A lot of people know the name Gloria Vanderbilt, but they don't really know the whole story behind her, the real person that she is.

People don't realize a lot of things about me. A lot of things, they don't know.

It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life.

Something that would probably surprise my fans is that I wear contact lenses, and nobody really knows that because I guess I've never really had to tell anybody about that.

I'm a real-life 'Hannah Montana.'

You see, one of the things about being a Housewife, and a New Jersey Housewife in particular, is that most of the drama seems to happen behind the scenes when the cameras aren't around.

It's impossible to know what everyone does behind closed doors. Even in families, you don't know sometimes what's going on.

People are always very surprised by how, offstage with my husband, I'm a completely different person... very soft and nurturing.

The most real characters in a great play are those who are so meticulously drawn that the audience could predict how many pairs of shoes they might have in their closet or how many close friends they had in grade school. Have any of our public figures been as fully developed in the media?

Just because you see me singing up on a stage doesn't mean I don't have real life behind it.