I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off.
When the press began asking me for interviews, I freaked out. My instinct is to hide.
By nature, I'm an awkward person; I'm a gangly introvert.
James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.
There's a lot of annoying things about me. I don't know, I'm really shy at first, and I don't really like it. I wish I was a little more outgoing.
I am a very reclusive, private person.
Or at school you might have been prodded to come “out of your shell”—that noxious expression which fails to appreciate that some animals naturally carry shelter everywhere they go, and that some humans are just the same.
Oh you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn, or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you. Oh how harshly was I flung back by the doubly sad experience of my bad hearing.
I am a very shy person.
I am just a quiet reclusive person who has managed to hang around for a while.
I am shyer than most people think.
I don't like being the focus of attention. It makes me very uncomfortable. And it's part of the reason I never look at videos of myself, or I very rarely listen to my music or even read things that I might've said.
I'm a melancholy person. It's how I'm always going to be.
Either you are extrovert or introvert, and so I am an introvert in that sense. I'm not a social person that wants to go to parties.
Peter remained very quiet and shy, but when he spoke it made sense.
Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.
I'm a pretty solitary type of person.
There's a common personality type to software developers - one I certainly fall into. We're more comfortable staring at a screen than staring into someone's eyes. Engineers can be brilliant in the workplace, and something less-than-brilliant everywhere else.
I'm not reclusive at all. Just private.
I've got a very behind-the-scenes personality. I don't know how I became a performer. I like to stay discreet, out of the public eye, very low-key.
Introvert conversations are like jazz. Each player gets to solo for a nice stretch before the other player comes in and does his solo.
I'm very shy. I wish more people believed me when I say that.
There are a few musicians that I know who seem on the outside like very asocial or somewhat unemotional people, people who aren't capable of emotions, and people think they're very cold inside.
Another of these strong silent men. The world is full of us.
Being a writer is a very private, internal process. Ultimately I am more the writer, being an introvert.
