Nathaniel Rich Quotes

I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships.

I've never been a social person. When I grew up, the other girls would all be combing their hair and exchanging lipstick, and I just couldn't do that group thing.

Many writers were picked on as children. Why? Because they were weird from the get-go. They were often to be found at the back of the class smelling erasers, or talking to caterpillars, or walking down the street with an encyclopedia balanced on their head.

I've always had to force myself to make friends and speak to people. My parents were quiet, and it took me a while to get used to the fact that people talk about their feelings, their problems.

I've never had friends, and I don't like to be around big groups of people.

I just don't have this magnetic personality that everyone is drawn to. I don't make friends easily... I'm just not one of those people.

At school I was very shy. I wasn't funny really.

There's something about being rejected - when I go out without my friends, I'm reminded of how I'm actually quite antisocial. I don't look like a guy who feels like that, but it's very hard for me to start up a conversation. At a party, I'm lost.

Sometimes I don't want to stand around a room full of strangers, chitchatting about nothing, so I'll come late to a party - and leave early. Though now that I'm saying this in a magazine, I'll probably never be invited to another one.

I was a nervous kid, not great socially.

I blush easily. I have difficulty meeting people's eye, difficulty with public speaking, the normal afflictions of the shy, but not to a paralysing degree.

I was a strange kid. I'm still strange. People didn't get me. And I didn't expect them to.

I don't mind having people over, but it's weird how much more withdrawn I've become than being social in public places, I guess.

I wasn't a social butterfly at all.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

I'm very quiet. I can go a whole week without talking, so doing interviews is really awkward for me!

I'm a loner. I like to be alone. I'm socially awkward.

A lot of geeks are pale, bespectacled, wear dark clothing and don't get out much - the stereotype exists because it is very often true. I could pass for a non-geek but it would be inaccurate.

When I was fifteen, I dreamed of living in the big city, as many a young person does if he is artistic and sensitive. By 'artistic and sensitive' I mean short, skinny, unkissed, bad at sports, and carrying a C average in high school.

I get so nervous. I happen to be socially awkward and shy. I spent a lot of my time as an adult not going places.

I'm definitely on the spectrum of socially awkward.

Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.

At 16, I was in Toronto and very shy and not hanging around with anyone who was intellectual in the slightest, so I didn't really have the means to discuss what I was seeing and feeling.

I'm not a person that socializes very well.

I had friends, but I was always a bit weird.