Quotes About Reclusiveness

I was anti social, but at the same time, people gravitated to that because they wanted to figure out who I was and why I was how I was.

It's about trying to step out of being patterned and closed off and reclusive, which I've always had a problem with. It's about attempting to be normal and just go out and be around other people and hang out. I have a tendency to sometimes be pretty closed off and not see people for long periods of time and not call anyone.

There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy.

I was less a social butterfly than a social death's-head moth.

I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death.

When he last went out, almost twenty-four years ago, he tried to make eye contact, to present what might be considered a normal appearance.

I tend to stay out of the public eye a little, compared to some of my peers.

I don't have a publicist. I don't go to events or self-promote, or endorse things, or whatever it is people are meant to do in that world.

In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.

I'm not one that cares for publicity.

As far as my absence from the public eye is concerned, that's because I'm publicity shy - something which is not considered good nowadays.

You get a lot of people requesting photographs but I tend to keep myself to myself, pull my cap down.

She has decided to appear to nobody but the feckless.

No dia seguinte entrou a dizer de mim nomes feios, e acabou alcunhando-me  Dom Casmurro. Os vizinhos, que não gostam dos meus hábitos reclusos e calados, deram curso à alcunha, que afinal pegou. 

More often than not, the demons of our nature love a recluse; nobody is more vulnerable to himself than the solitary. To imagine that one can simply withdraw, and somehow achieve peace, or wisdom, or detachment, is a mistake. It is also, in most cases, inappropriate, selfish, and even cowardly.

There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.

I'm home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.

When I was working on Eye of the Beholder, I played a character who is so aloof that my whole lifestyle became very aloof. If someone knocked on my door, there was a part of me that went into a rage, because I wanted to be isolated and alone.

I tend to avoid things like award shows and panels and interviews, not remotely because I feel I'm above them or wish to cultivate the image of the intriguing recluse. I'm just not very good at them.

I get invited to a thousand parties, but do I show up at them? No, I don't.

All my life I have generally avoided my neighbors. If I happen to encounter one of them I immediately move somewhere else.

Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere. While others who have something to say or who want to be effectual, like musicians or baseball players or politicians, have to get out there in front of people, writers, who tend to be shy, get to stay home and still be public.

Some time ago I discovered that I could no longer speak aloud or read aloud from a stage, even for the sake of hearing the effect that my writer's voice produced on listeners. Now, curiously, the more I merely try to live, the more reclusive I become, the vainer I am. At last I am as vain as the one who instantly voices his silence inside me.

When I was working on Eye of the Beholder, I played a character who is so aloof that my whole lifestyle became very aloof. If someone knocked on my door, there was a part of me that went into a rage, because I wanted to be isolated and alone.