Quotes About Reclusiveness

I am a total loser, in every aspect of my life. I rarely go out.

With me, my main vision for life was to avoid as many people as possible. The less people I saw the better I felt.

A hermit always longs for visitors, said Loring,until they come, and then he wishes them gone.

After the New Yorker piece I decided that I would never give another interview to anyone on any subject and that I would keep away from all places where I would be likely to be interviewed. If you say nothing it is difficult for someone to get it wrong.

I don't even like most people.

Had she been more active, less reclusive, she would have gone out into the streets to lose herself in some sort of company, have made the pretext of buying an evening paper an opportunity to chat to the newsagent, but she rejected such stratagems, seeing them for what they were. It had been decreed that she was to be solitary, and somehow she had always known this. Once she had left her parents' house all friendships had seemed provisional; even marriage had not changed that.

I'm one of those people who fiercely guards their privacy, so I hate doing interviews.

About my books, that's all that I think the public has, in its normal way, to know. My private life is, by definition, private.

Offscreen, I'm a private person. I'm shy and don't know how to face the public.

Part of me has always been a private person.

I'm a very private person, and perhaps this can be mistaken for aloofness.

I am a totally private person. I don't go to Bollywood parties.

I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.

For three years Albert would stay huddled in his den during the day and see almost no one, content to be alone with his books. From time to time, unshaved and sloppily dressed, he would appear in the street to take a meal or perform some errand. Then it was back to his room for more study.

Except physically, we know little more about Garbo than we know about Shakespeare.

People mistake shyness and reclusiveness- both of those- for arrogance. It's a convenient label slapped on by those who see only the surface of things and nothing more.

There was nothing else in Carbone's six-by-eight cell. Nothing significant, nothing out of the ordinary, nothing explanatory. Nothing that revealed his history, his nature, his passions, or his interests. He had lived his life in secret, buttoned down, like his Saturday-night shirts.

If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up.

There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer.

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

She'd got so used to not wanting to go out and be sociable that saying no had become her natural default setting. The moment anyone invited her anywhere, her brain began scrambling for plausible excuses as to why she couldn't make it.

I've always kept a low profile and said no to 'Saturday Night Live' and stuff like that.

I don't get as much female attention as you'd think, because I never go out.

If I were to pick the life of someone whom I professionally mimic in many ways, it would be Howard Hughes, surprisingly.