The acquisition of culture requires repose, sitting quietly in a room with a book, or alone with one's thoughts even any crowded concert or art museum.

~ Joseph Epstein

Joseph Epstein Introverts Solitude

Extroverts sparkle, introverts glow. Extroverts are fireworks, introverts are a fire in the hearth.

~ Sophia Dembling

Sophia Dembling Extroverts Introverts Personality

Anyone who writes books is at least mostly an introvert. It’s amazing to be able to share that internalized part of myself, that little world that no one really knows about. I just wrote down it down on a piece of paper just to be crazy, and people loving that is so strange.

~ Pierce Brown

Pierce Brown Introverts Writers On Writing Writing

If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent.

~ Susan Cain

Susan Cain Extroverts Genius Giftednessss Introverts Perspiration Talent

There are such a lot of things that have no place in summer and autumn and spring. Everything that’s a little shy and a little rum. Some kinds of night animals and people that don’t fit in with others and that nobody really believes in. They keep out of the way all the year. And then when everything’s quiet and white and the nights are long and most people are asleep—then they appear.

~ Tove Jansson

Tove Jansson Introverts Outsiders Winter

But the most important thing to know about being an introvert is that there’s nothing wrong with you. You’re not broken because you’re quiet. It’s okay to stay home on a Friday night instead of going to a party. Being an introvert is a perfectly normal 'thing' to be.

~ Jenn Granneman

Jenn Granneman Introversion Introvert Introverts Normal Party Wrong