quiet-the-power-of-introverts-in-a-world-that-cant-stop-talking-susan-cain

and of another eight-year-old who cried
not only when she felt embarrassed, but
also when her peers were teased.
We know this type of person well
from literature, probably because so
many writers are sensitive introverts
themselves. He “had gone through life
with one skin fewer than most men,”
the novelist Eric Malpass writes of his
quiet and cerebral protagonist, also an
author, in the novel The Long Long
Dances. “The troubles of others moved
him more, as did also the teeming
beauty of life: moved him, compelled
him, to seize a pen and write about
them. [He was moved by] walking in
the hills, listening to a Schubert impromptu,
watching nightly from his
armchair the smashing of bone and
flesh that made up so much of the nine
o’clock news.”
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