Clive Sinclair Quotes

I'm an introspective person. I'm not an extrovert.

Stiles is a version of me that rarely exists in the real world. He's so confident and extroverted, and I'm much more restrained and internal.

My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.

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.

I wasn't always this introverted.

I probably am more shy than people realize. But I'm shy when I leave a studio and I am just myself.

I know I seem really friendly, but I'm a closet introvert.

I'm just basically telling a story of my life.

When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I was both.

I'm not extremely outgoing, but I'm average, I think. When people meet me they'll say, 'Oh you're not that shy...' I never said I was! I see where they're coming from because my biggest single was about being shy at a party - I get it. But it's not 100% accurate.

We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.

I'm actually much more shy and self-conscious than people's perception of me.

I'm much less shy in conversation than I am on my own.

I'm an external person, I'm not than internal at all.

I like to tell my own story using my personality and my insight, the way I see things.

I think there's times where I'm introverted, and there's times where I'm extroverted.

The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'

I've never had a very great public life.

An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.

I wish that people had an opportunity to watch me 24/7, like on 'Big Brother.' You'd see a person who is quiet and reserved and very analytical - a huge observer.

I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually write about myself, I get very confused.

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.

The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

When an introvert is quiet, don't assume he is depressed, snobbish or socially deficient.

I'm not as shy as everybody makes me out to be.