Jonathan Rauch Quotes

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

I am an introvert. I should get that out there now.

I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical.

I don't like to write about myself. I like listening to people.

In person, I am a person who doesn't talk about myself.

I'm not one of those people that has to share personal experiences. That's not really the kind of writer I am. I'm a very private person to begin with.

I think people think I'm a extrovert but really I'm a introvert.

I guess they say that you can find out if you're an extravert or an introvert by how you recharge yourself and I guess I'm more of an introvert in that way because I like to be by myself to recharge, but I'm definitely a people person. I love socializing and being around people and having good conversations.

I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.

There is a huge difference between writing a book, which is a private activity I engage in with myself, and wanting to engage in overly intimate personal conversations with strangers, which I pretty much never want to do.

I'm not a people person. I'm not sociable. I have been and I can be, but not as a general rule.

When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.

Look, some people talk about their personal lives a lot; I try not to, unless it's more of a generality.

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

I don't like talking about myself. I don't like talking about my personal life.

By nature, I think I am a pretty private person, and that is what is hard even doing interviews for films that I really love doing, because in some ways, it diminishes the experience that I had.

I don't like to talk about myself that much.

I just don't talk about who I'm going out with, that's it. It's an odd thing to sit around describing yourself to 10 different people every 5 minutes yet it's kind of therapeutic in a way.

I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.

I don't like talking about myself, if I'm honest.

There's nothing risky in talking about your personal life. People do it all the time.

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

I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.

I don't like to talk about myself.

People love to talk about themselves.