Quotes About Reclusiveness

I want to let my fans get to know a little about me. I'm very thankful for everything they've done for me so, of course, I'm going to let them into my world a bit. But I really am a very private person, and I love kepping my life to myself - that's how I've always been.

I'm really private, and also, when I'm home, I'm home. I don't like people in on my business. I believe that you can be overexposed.

For me, it's important to keep a level of anonymity.

Miss Austen has made herself known without making herself public.

I'm pretty much an isolated person. I'd rather stay home and play video games.

I've never met Eminem; you don't meet Eminem. He has his own secret service.

I don't mean to be highfalutin about it, but I try to limit my visibility.

I've avoided the press and a lot of stuff that would have made me more visible just because it's not my style.

I can change, but as we speak now, I really have zero desire to see my name in the press.

Something most people don't know about me is that I'm quite the loner, I would say. I don't really ever leave my house.

but it was excruciating to emerge from my eerie submarine existence into this harsh stampede of noise and light.

Only when pressed did Mabel admit that they'd never met face to face. At most, she'd 'once' glimpsed her object 'flitting' away. 'Flitting' fits the legend of shyness, a shrinking creature, but the cutting edge of the Dickinson voice conveys the opposite: it's bared, at the ready.

The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer and soak perpetually in conscious complacency.

He marveled at the poetry of Emily Dickinson, sensing her kindred spirit. For the last seventeen years of her life, Dickinson rarely left her home in Massachusetts and spoke to visitors only through a partially closed door. "Saying nothing, " she wrote, "sometimes says the most.

Christopher Knight, you could argue, is the most solitary known person in all of human history.

Unsociability attracts enemies.