Introvert insight:

Solitude matters.
And for some people it’s the air they breathe.

– Susan Cain.

For introverts, to be alone with our thoughts is as restorative as sleeping, as nourish as eating.

– Jonathan Rauch.

People say things to me like, ‘It’s really cool that you don’t go out and get drunk all the time and go to clubs.’
I appreciate that, but I’m an introverted kind of person just by nature.

– Emma Watson.

I am primarily a loner.

I don’t go to clubs.

I don’t hang out with people.

I don’t know many people.

It’s just the way it ended up.

It’s not a sob story; it’s fine for me.

– Henry Rollins.

James Patterson, on reading:

If you're not reading - with your heart as well as your brain - you will be one stupid grown up.
Even worst, you'll be missing out on one of the best experiences you can possibly have.
Nowhere will you meet more interesting people than in books.

- James Patterson.

Toni Morrison, on writing:

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self,

to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar,

is the test of their power.

- Toni Morrison.

Hunter S. Thompson, on writing:

No music + bad TV = Bad mood & no pages.

- Hunter S. Thompson.

Stephen King, on writing:

Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about.

It is this genuine caring,

not your games with language,

which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.

- Stephen King.

James Ellroy, on writing:

Cats gotta scratch.

Dogs gotta bite.

I gotta write.

- James Ellroy.

Mary Higgins Clark, on writing:

Writing is storytelling.

No matter how you slice it, you're saying, 'Once upon a time.'

That's what writing is all about.

- Mary Higgins Clark.

Stan Lee, on writing and reading:

The only advice anybody can give is, if you wanna be a writer, keep writing.

And read all you can, read everything.

- Stan Lee.

Liv Ullman, on books:

Books have always been living things to me.

Some of my encounters with new authors have changed my life a little.

When I have been perplexed,

looking for something I could not define to myself,

a certain book has turned up,

approached me as a friend would.

And between its cover carried the questions and the answers I was looking for.

- Liv Ullmann.

Ray Bradbury, on intuition and writing:

Your intuition knows what to write,

so get out of the way.

- Ray Bradbury.

James Patterson, on reading:

You see, one of the best things about reading

is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.

- James Patterson.

Beatrix Potter, on writing:

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story.

You never quite know where they'll take you.

- Beatrix Potter.

Lawrence Clark Powell, on writing, speaking and reading:

Write to be understood,

speak to be heard,

read to grow.

- Lawrence Clark Powell.

Sylvia Plath, on inspiration and writing:

Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.

- Sylvia Plath.

Aldous Huxley, on writing:

To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment,

and then a whole lot of work on the basis of those inspirations.

- Aldous Huxley.

Patricia Highsmith, on being an introvert and a writer:

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

- Patricia Highsmith.

George R. R. Martin, on reading:

I was born in Bayonne, New Jersey.

I grew up in the projects.

I never went anywhere.

But I have lived a thousand lives and I've loved a thousand loves.

I've walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time.

Because I read.

- George R. R. Martin.

World Introvert Day - January 2:

World Introvert Day

January 2

This is a day for the dreamers.

The thinkers.

The quiet ones.

The ones sitting in the back of the room or standing at the edges.

The ones who know more than they show and feel more than they let on.

Today we celebrate introverts.

– Jenn Granneman.

#WorldIntrovertDay

Jhumpa Lahiri, on books:

That's what books are for ... to travel without moving an inch.

- Jhumpa Lahiri.

James Patterson, on reading and writing:

I learnt to love reading.
And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more.

- James Patterson.