Daniel Tammet Quotes

I don't have a whole bunch of literary connections. I don't write reviews or attend writer's conferences. I'm kind of shy and don't want to go to a party. I just want to stay home and read my murder mysteries and try to write and cook dinner.

I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.

I don't want to be looked at. I really want to be a home body.

I'm extremely introverted. I used to think it was shyness, but I got over that, so it must be door No. 2. It's still hard for me to be away from home much, and I have to make sure I get lots of time alone in my room when I'm touring.

I don't really feel comfortable anywhere except when I'm working alone at home. It's exhausting to be out around people.

When I'm at home in Virginia, I become more hermit-like. I like my own home.

I'm pretty much an isolated person. I'd rather stay home and play video games.

I do become a recluse once in a while. It's so nice to just be at home and to not have to deal with the outside world.

I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.

I'm more of a homebody. I'm constantly asked: 'Why don't we see you out?' But that's not what drives me. I prefer to have people over - which I do a lot, because I bought a house that's way too big for me, and four of my friends live there.

I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.

I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.

I'm trying to take more nothing time - and that means sacrificing doing. It's partly to do with age, partly to do with the fact that writing takes up a lot of space in your head. My ideal is to go back to when I was a child. My life is quieter than it used to be. More and more I don't really want to talk to people. I'd make a good nun, actually.

I used to like going out so much, and now I can't get myself to leave home.

I don't like going out. I hate clubs. I hate being around too many people. I love my home and staying in bed and watching 'Dancing With the Stars' or reading a Danielle Steel novel.

I'm not one to go out. I'm more of a homebody.

I think I'm a homebody. I don't talk to anyone. I sit at home, and no one asks me questions or I'm talking about goat noises.

I stay in a lot.

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

I was painfully shy, and I had tremendous difficulty making friends. So, lacking friends, I watched other people. Watching is something all writers must do, and it was in junior high that I learned to do it.

I don't think anyone would care about my private life because I don't do anything. I'm at home with my dog.

I'm kind of a homebody.

I was a homebody growing up.

I think to be writer you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to characters in books and films who were at the fringes.

I'm a homebody, really, when it comes down to it.