Quotes About Introspective

I'm a private person who doesn't relish making her personal life public.

It is Proust's implacable honesty, his reluctance to cut corners or to articulate what might have been good enough or credible enough in any other writer that make him the introspective genius he is.

I think I like reluctant protagonists.

I have to remind myself constantly to not be antisocial, because I stay to myself a lot. I'm a lot more introspective than my characters.

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.

I've never been the kind of guy to hype myself up. It's just not my thing.

I don't much believe in the hype of anything or anybody, not even myself.

I might be an idiot.

A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.

I'm, like, the most terrible person to go to a party with in the world, because I just can't enjoy it. I'm just thinking all the time about what it means and what the implications are.

I don't enjoy hearing the sound of my voice. The most important things for me are impossible to articulate extemporaneously.

I'm a person, when something's not going right, I'm looking at myself and seeing how I can improve and what I can do better.

I have no inclination to seek attention.

I am kind of an undecipherable commodity to a lot of people, including myself.

And so we became who we are: gentle and bookish and ever so slightly confused. It is not a bad way to be, when all is said and done.

Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I'm quite shy.

I'm very good in math, and I'm a logical thinker. I don't get wrapped up in things or even wrapped up in myself.

The trap in Hamlet is he's the most passive of Shakespeare's characters. He's not a Richard III, not out there taking a lot of action. It's a lot of asides and soliloquies where he's wrapped in angst, and that's not a very interesting character.

I was a quiet kid - I didn't think I needed to be the funniest guy. I was always more of a listener. I went to 12 different schools, and I wasn't the charismatic dude, but I was captain of the track team and wrestling team.

I'm a writer more than I am a talker.

My temper is of a recluse and contemplative cast; had it been otherwise, I should, perhaps, on some former occasions, have entered into the active concerns of the world and not have been connected with it merely as a writer of books.

A writer can be subjective, even digressive, or introspective and certainly judgmental. This is a simplification, of course, but as a general rule, it holds true.

I'm not one of those people who writes a biography or tries to figure out what kind of ice cream the character liked when he was 10.

I'm not one of those people who writes long soliloquies.