A Quote by John Lanchester

The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.

John Lanchester

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John Lanchester
British - Novelist
Born: February 25, 1962

I was very shy growing up. My shyness manifested as a big personality, as opposed to the wallflower personality. It's been a journey getting comfortable in my skin. I've worked on trying to find the authentic balance between the bravado of my personality that was sort of a defense and the truth within my bigness.

Tracee Ellis Ross

See, I'm not the type of writer that has 400 songs in a suitcase someplace on the shelf. I'm sort of a rise-to-the-occasion-type of writer, so when I know I'm going to record, I get in the mood to write.

Luther Vandross

I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type.

Al Pacino

Andy was an offbeat personality, shy and insecure. The whole reason for taking a camera with him wherever he went was because he was so shy. He'd break the ice by taking pictures.

Paul Morrissey

If you read people like say Bruce Blair one of the leading, most sober, knowledgeable specialists, he says, look, [Donald Trump] statements are all over the map, but his personality is frightening, he's a complete megalomaniac.

Noam Chomsky

I get pigeonholed into type-A personality characters, but I'm really not type A. I'm kind of a spaz.

Alison Brie

I'm very interested in how the brain works and the different personality types. I get my friends to do personality tests, and I see what type they resemble.

Divock Origi

I'm not a fadeaway type of person; I don't have that type of personality.

Mirai Nagasu

There was a story that came out that Jimmy Garoppolo was one of the first guys to text Trey Lance. That's just the type of guy Jimmy is. He's not going to shy away from adversity, shy away from a draft pick.

George Kittle

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

Bertrand Russell

I'm the type of employer who will hire based on personality, based on potential. If you put the resume before the personality, you're going to fail.

Jon Taffer

I have an hourglass shape, and I think it's important to understand your body type and your personality type. Then make whatever is on trend and in fashion work for you.

Fiona Gubelmann

The writer is a definite human phenomenon. He is almost a type - as pugilists are a type. He may be a bad writer - an insipid one or a clumsy one - but there is a bug in him that keeps spinning yarns; and that bulges his brow a bit, narrows his jaws, weakens his eyes and gives him girl children instead of boys. Nobody but a writer can write. People who hang around writers for years - as producers did - who are much smarter and have much better taste, never learn to write.

Ben Hecht

I grew up in a humble family with a shy personality.

Fethullah Gulen

I am a shy type of guy.

Yuzvendra Chahal

'Made it as a writer'? I'm still wondering if I've made it as a writer. I've made it as a published writer of the type of SF that I want to write and read, but I'm still waiting for that big breakthrough.

Eric Brown

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