Introversion
“If I’m working very hard, which is seldom, the last thing I want to do in order to relax is to be with people and babbling away and so forth. So I go to the movies or read a book or watch any of my thousands of tapes upstairs. “
- Edward Gorey, from “Edward Gorey and the Tao of Nonsense,” Stephen Schiff, The New Yorker
“If you’re really self-satisfied all the time, you’re probably a lousy writer.”
Storyboard’s wonderful interview with the New Yorker’s editor in chief David Remnick on the art of the modern profile.
“I am by trade a novelist. It is, I think, a harmless trade, though it is not everywhere considered a respectable one.”
