Introvert insight:

I don’t mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I’m good at.

I do what I do and that’s it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.

– Henry Rollins.

I think a lot, but I don't say much.
– Anne Frank.

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

– Euripides.

 

We introverts love to wander.

Our favorite destination for quiet explorations is our imagination.

No matter where we are, we feel called away by our own thoughts.

– from The Irresistible Introvert, by Michaela Chung.

Joan Aiken, on stories:

Stories ought not to be just little bits of fantasy that are used to wile away an idle hour; from the beginning of the human race stories have been used - by priests, by bards, by medicine men - as magic instruments of healing, of teaching, as a means of helping people come to terms with the fact that they continually have to face insoluble problems and unbearable realities.
– Joan Aiken.

Born on this day – Hannah Jones:

Hannah Jones

Actress

October 15, 1872 – 1949 / exact date of death unknown

Credits:

Blackmail (1929); Champagne (1928); Children of Chance (1930); Commissionaire (1933); Doctor Knock (1938); Downhill (1927); East of Shanghai (1931); Elstree Calling (1930); I Lived with You (1933); Murder! (1930); Piccadilly (1929); Potiphar's Wife (1931); Those Who Love (1929).

Born on this day – Jane Darwell:

Jane Darwell

Actress

October 15, 1879 – August 13, 1967

Credits:

Mary Poppins (1964); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962); Burke's Law (1963); Follow the Sun (1961); Lassie (1954); Wagon Train (1957); The Real McCoys (1957); Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958); New Comedy Showcase (1960); Hound-Dog Man (1959); Buckskin (1958); The Last Hurrah (1958); Matinee Theatre (1955); Maverick (1957); Studio One (1948); The Eighty Yard Run: Playhouse 90 (1956–1957); Circus Boy (1957); The Sheriff of Cochise (1956); Schlitz Playhouse (1951); Cavalcade of America (1952); Girls in Prison (1956); My Friend Flicka (1955); The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (1954); Screen Directors Playhouse (1955); There's Always Tomorrow (1956); Studio 57 (1954); Climax! (1954); The Ford Television Theatre (1952); Willy (1954); A Life at Stake (1955); Hit the Deck (1955); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1953); The Loretta Young Show (1953); Fireside Theatre (1949); The Bigamist (1953); Affair with a Stranger (1953); It Happens Every Thursday (1953); The Sun Shines Bright (1953); Hollywood Opening Night (1952); We're Not Married! (1952); The Red Skelton Hour (1951); Personal Appearance Theater (1951); Journey Into Light (1951); Excuse My Dust (1951); The Lemon Drop Kid (1951); Father's Wild Game (1950); The Second Face (1950); Three Husbands (1950); Redwood Forest Trail (1950); Surrender (1950); Caged (1950); Wagon Master (1950); The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady (1950); Red Canyon (1949); 3 Godfathers (1948); Train to Alcatraz (1948); The Red Stallion (1947); Keeper of the Bees (1947); My Darling Clementine (1946); Three Wise Fools (1946); The Dark Horse (1946); Captain Tugboat Annie (1945); A Yank in London (1945); Sunday Dinner for a Soldier (1944); She's a Sweetheart (1944); Music in Manhattan (1944); The Impatient Years (1944); Reckless Age (1944); Tender Comrade (1943); Government Girl (1943); Family Feud (1943); Stage Door Canteen (1943); The Ox-Bow Incident (1943); Gildersleeve's Bad Day (1943); The Great Gildersleeve (1942); Highways by Night (1942); The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe (1942); Men of Texas (1942); It Happened in Flatbush (1942); Small Town Deb (1942); On the Sunny Side (1942); Young America (1942); All Through the Night (1942); All That Money Can Buy (1941); Private Nurse (1941); Thieves Fall Out (1941); Chad Hanna (1940); Youth Will Be Served (1940); Brigham Young (1940); Untamed (1940); The Grapes of Wrath (1940); Miracle on Main Street (1939); Gone with the Wind (1939); 20,000 Men a Year (1939); The Rains Came (1939); Grand Jury Secrets (1939); Unexpected Father (1939); The Zero Hour (1939); Inside Story (1939); Jesse James (1939); Up the River (1938); Five of a Kind (1938); Time Out for Murder (1938); Little Miss Broadway (1938); Three Blind Mice (1938); Battle of Broadway (1938); The Jury's Secret (1938); Change of Heart (1938); Dangerously Yours (1937); Wife, Doctor and Nurse (1937); The Singing Marine (1937); Slave Ship (1937); Fifty Roads to Town (1937); The Great Hospital Mystery (1937); Nancy Steele Is Missing! (1937); Love Is News (1937); Laughing at Trouble (1936); Ramona (1936); Craig's Wife (1936); Star for a Night (1936); White Fang (1936); Poor Little Rich Girl (1936); Private Number (1936); Little Miss Nobody (1936); Captain January (1936); The First Baby (1936); The Country Doctor (1936); Paddy O'Day (1936); We're Only Human (1935); Metropolitan (1935); Navy Wife (1935); Curly Top (1935); Wig-Wag (1935); Life Begins at 40 (1935); McFadden's Flats (1935); One More Spring (1935); Bright Eyes (1934); Gentlemen Are Born (1934); The White Parade (1934); The Firebird (1934); Tomorrow's Youth (1934); Happiness Ahead (1934); Wake Up and Dream (1934); Desirable (1934); One Night of Love (1934); Million Dollar Ransom (1934); Embarrassing Moments (1934); Blind Date (1934); Most Precious Thing in Life (1934); Let's Talk It Over (1934); Change of Heart (1934); The Scarlet Empress (1934); Finishing School (1934); Once to Every Woman (1934); Journal of a Crime (1934); David Harum (1934); Wonder Bar (1934); Heat Lightning (1934); Fashions of 1934 (1934); Cross Country Cruise (1934); King for a Night (1933); Roman Scandals (1933); Design for Living (1933); Only Yesterday (1933); Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men (1933); Ann Vickers (1933); One Sunday Afternoon (1933); He Couldn't Take It (1933); Before Dawn (1933); Bed of Roses (1933); Good Housewrecking (1933); Jennie Gerhardt (1933); Emergency Call (1933); The Girl in 419 (1933); Bondage (1933); Murders in the Zoo (1933); Child of Manhattan (1933); The Past of Mary Holmes (1933); Air Hostess (1933); Women Won't Tell (1932); Hot Saturday (1932); Washington Merry-Go-Round (1932); Back Street (1932); The Strange Case of Clara Deane (1932); Young America (1932); No One Man (1932); Ladies of the Big House (1931); Huckleberry Finn (1931); Fighting Caravans (1931); Tom Sawyer (1930); Little Church Around the Corner (1923); The Restless Sex (1920); The Reform Candidate (1915); The Rug Maker's Daughter (1915); After Five (1915); The Goose Girl (1915); Hypocrites (1915); Rose of the Rancho (1914); Ready Money (1914); The Man on the Box (1914); The Only Son (1914); The Master Mind (1914); Brewster's Millions (1914); The White Squaw (1913); War of the Cattle Range (1913); In the Coils of the Python (1913); When Sherman Marched to the Sea (1913); The Head Hunters (1913); At Shiloh (1913); The Capture of Aguinaldo (1913).

Born on this day – P. G. Wodehouse:

P. G. Wodehouse

Writer

October 15, 1881 – February 14, 1975

Credits:

Books:

A Carnival of Modern Humour (1967); A Century of British Mystery and Suspense (2000); A Century of Humour (1925); A Damsel in Distress (1919); A Distant Cry (2002); A Few Quick Ones (1959); A Gentleman of Leisure / aka The Intrusion of Jimmy (1910); A Life in Letters (2025); A Pelican at Blandings (1969); A Prefect's Uncle (1903); Above Average at Games (2019); According to Jeeves (2024); Aunts Aren't Gentlemen / aka The Cat-Nappers (1974); Bachelors Anonymous (1973); Barmy in Wonderland (1952); Best of 'The Strand Magazine' (2025); Big Money (1931); Bill the Conqueror (1924); Blandings Castle and Elsewhere (1935); Carry on, Jeeves (1925); Classic Wodehouse (2017); Cocktail Time (1958); Company for Henry / aka The Purloined Paperweight (1967); Crime and Crime Again (1990); Detective Duos (1997); Do Butlers Burgle Banks? (1968); Doctor Sally (1932); Eggs, Beans and Crumpets (1940); English Country House Murders (1988); Fine Weather, Jeeves (2024); Four Plays (1983); French Leave (1956); Frozen Assets / aka Biffen's Millions (1964); Full Moon (1947); Galahad at Blandings / aka The Brinkmanship of Galahad Threepwood (1964); Ghostly (2015); Goodbye to All Cats (1998); Heavy Weather (1933); Highballs for Breakfast (2016); Hot Water (1932); Ice in the Bedroom (1961); If I Were You (1931); Imperial Blandings (1993); Indiscretions of Archie (1921); Introducing Jeeves (2019); Jeeves Again (2025); Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (1954); Jeeves and the Yule-Tide Spirit (2014); Jeeves in the Offing / aka How Right You Are, Jeeves (1960); Jill the Reckless / aka The Little Warrior (1921); Jolly Festive, Jeeves (2023); Joy in the Morning / aka Jeeves in the Morning (1946); Laughing Gas (1936); Leave it to Psmith (1923); Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best (2001); Lord Emsworth and Others / aka The Crime Wave at Blandings (1937); Louder and Funnier (1932); Love Among the Chickens (1906); Meet Mr. Mulliner (1927); Mike (1909); Mike and Psmith / aka Enter Psmith (1935); Mike at Wrykn (1953); Money for Nothing (1928); Money in the Bank (1946); More Mystery Cats (1993); Mr. Mulliner Speaking (1929); Much Obliged, Jeeves / aka Jeeves and the Tie That Binds (1971); Mulliner Nights (1933); Mulliner's Buck-U-Uppo (2017); My Man Jeeves (1919); Mystery in the Mainstream (1986); Not George Washington (1907); Nothing Serious (1950); Open at Your Own Risk (1975); Over Seventy (1957); Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin / aka The Plot that Thickened (1972); Performing Flea (1953); Piccadilly Jim (1918); Pigs Have Wings (1952); Plum Pie (1966); Psmith in the City (1910); Psmith Journalist (1915); Quick Service (1940); Right Ho, Jeeves / aka Brinkley Manor (1934); Ring for Jeeves / aka The Return of Jeeves (1953); Sam the Sudden / aka Sam in the Suberbs (1925); Service with a Smile (1962); Sherlock (2015); Short Stories (1985); Something Fishy (1957); Something Fresh (1915); Spring Fever (1948); Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (1963); Summer Lightning / aka Fish Preferred (1929); Summer Moonshine (1937); Sunset at Blandings (1977); Tales from the Drones Club (1982); Tales of St. Austin's (1903); Thank You, Jeeves (1934); The Adventures of Sally / aka Mostly Sally (1922); The Amazing Hat Mystery (2017); The Amis Story Anthology (1992); The Best of Wodehouse (2007); The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked Room Mysteries (2014); The Camelot Chronicles (1992); The Clicking of Cuthbert / aka Golf Without Tears (1922); The Code of the Woosters (1938); The Collector's Wodehouse: The Complete Set (2016); The Coming of Bill / aka Their Mutual Child (1920); The Flying Sorcerers (1997); The Gem Collector (1909); The Girl in Blue (1970); The Globe by the Way Book (1908); The Gold Bat (1904); The Great Book of Humour (1935); The Head of Kay's (1905); The Heart of a Goof / aka Divots (1926); The Hollywood Omnibus (1985); The Inimitable Jeeves / aka Jeeves (1923); The Little Nugget (1913); The Luck of the Bodkins (1935); The Mammoth Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1998); The Man Upstairs (1914); The Man with Two Left Feet (1917); The Mating Season (1949); The Most Of P.G. Wodehouse (2023); The Old Reliable (1951); The Oxford Book of English Short Stories (1998); The Pothunters (1902); The Pothunters and other School Stories (1986); The Prince and Betty (1912); The Small Bachelor (1927); The Smile that Wins (1933); The Sophisticated Cat (1992); The Swoop! (1909); The Week-End Book of Humour (1954); The White Feather (1907); The World of Jeeves (1967); The World of Mr. Mulliner (1972); The World of Psmith (1974); The World of Ukridge (1975); The World of Wodehouse Clergy (1984); Three Men And A Maid / aka The Girl on the Boat (1922); Ukridge / aka He Rather Enjoyed It (1924); Uncle Dynamite (1948); Uncle Fred in the Springtime (1939); Uneasy Money (1917); Very Good, Jeeves (1930); Vintage Wodehouse (1977); Week-End Wodehouse (1939); What Ho! (2000); Willam Tell Told Again (1904); Wodehouse Nuggets (1983); Wodehouse on Golf (2007); Wodehouse on Wodehouse (1980); Young Men in Spats (1936).

Movies and television:

A Damsel in Distress (1919 / 1937); A Gentleman of Leisure (1915 / 1923); A váratlan utazás (1978); All Night Long (2010); American Pop (1981); An Evening with Orson Welles: Wodehouse Speeches (1972); Anything Goes (1936 / 1956 / 1962); Au théâtre ce soir (1975); Blagoje (2012); Blandings (2013–2014); Blandings Castle (1967); Blixt och dunder (1938); Blut floss auf Blendings Castle (1967); Boardwalk Empire (2010); Bookmark (1989); Bright Lights, Big City (1988); Brother Alfred (1932); By Jeeves (2001); Chester Forgets Himself (1924); Comedy Playhouse (1967–1974); Den ofrivillige golfaren (1991); Diener und andere Herren (1978); Dizzy Dames (1935); Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga (2019); Encounter (1953); Faulks on Fiction (2011); Fireside Reading of My Man Jeeves (2022); Forduljon Psmithhez (1976); Four Star Playhouse (1955); General Electric Theater (1961); Goeie morgen, Bill (1961); Gomorron Bill! (1945); Good Morning, Bill (1939); Gosford Park (2001); Great Performances (1988 / 1989); Heavy Weather (1995); Her Cardboard Lover (1929 / 1942); Hollywood Opening Night (1953); Il buon angelo (1957); In Performance at the White House: A Tribute to American Music - Jerome Kern (1987); ITV Play of the Week (1957); James to zarídí (1970); Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993); Kraft Television Theatre (1953); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1950); Leave It to Me (1933); Live from Lincoln Center (1990); Lord Emsworth and the Little Friend (1956); Making Up with Mother (1919); Monitor (1958); Musical Comedy Time (1950); Nine O'Clock News (1975); Oh Boy! (1919); Oh Kay! (1928); Oh, Lady, Lady (1920); Ordeal by Golf (1924); P.G. Wodehouse's the Test Case (2014); Parade of Stars (1983); Perspectives (2013); Piccadilly Jim (1919 / 1936 / 2004); Pig-Hoo-o-o-o-ey (1954); Prosím, vase lordstvo! (1991); Review (1971–1972); Rodney Fails to Qualify (1924); Rule Sixty-Three (1915); Sally (1925 / 1929); She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas (1985); Show Boat (1929 / 1936 / 1951); Startime (1960); Step Lively, Jeeves! (1937); Stick Around (1920); Stiff Upper Lip Jeeves: The Radio Play (2018); Summer Lightning (1933); Thank You, Jeeves! (1936); That's Entertainment! III (1994); The Book Programme (1974); The Clicking of Cuthbert (1924); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1954); The Comedy Map of Britain (2008); The Creative Person (1966); The Girl on the Boat (1962); The Golden Butterfly (1926); The Great Ziegfeld (1936); The Helen Morgan Story (1957); The Laraine Day Show (1951); The Long Hole (1924); The Magic Plus Fours (1924); The Man in Possession (1931); The Prince and Betty (1919); The Show Boat Story (1989); The Small Bachelor (1927); The Twentieth Century (1961); The Voice of Firestone (1952); The World of Wooster (1965–1967); Their Mutual Child (1920); This Is Your Life (1962); Those Three French Girls (1930); Till the Clouds Roll By (1946); Tip on a Dead Jockey (1957); Tóbiás és a többiek (1965); Today (1963 / 1966); Tonight on Broadway (1948); Trésor Party (1960); Ukridge (1968); Uneasy Money (1918); Wodehouse Playhouse (1974–1978); Wogan on Wodehouse (2011).

Born on this day – S. S. Van Dine:

S. S. Van Dine

Writer

October 15, 1888 – April 11, 1939

Credits:

Books:

The Benson Murder Case (1926); The Canary Murder Case (1927); The Greene Murder Case (1928); The Bishop Murder Case (1928); The Scarab Murder Case (1929); The Kennel Murder Case (1933); The Dragon Murder Case (1934); The Casino Murder Case (1934); The Garden Murder Case (1935); The Kidnap Murder Case (1936); The Gracie Allen Murder Case (aka The Smell of Murder) (1938); The Winter Murder Case (1939); Murder Plus (1992).

Movies and television:

Calling Philo Vance (1940); El cuerpo del delito (1930); Murder in the Pullman (1932); Night of Mystery (1937); Philo Vance (1974); Philo Vance Returns (1947); Philo Vance's Gamble (1947); The Benson Murder Case (1930); The Bishop Murder Case (1929); The Campus Mystery (1932); The Canary Murder Case (1929 / 1935); The Clyde Mystery (1931); The Cole Case (1932); The Crane Poison Case (1932); The Dragon Murder Case (1934); The Garden Murder Case (1936); The Gracie Allen Murder Case (1939); The Greene Murder Case (1929 / 2002); The Kennel Murder Case (1933); The President's Mystery (1936); The Scarab Murder Case (1936); The Side Show Mystery (1932); The Skull Murder Mystery (1932); The Studio Murder Mystery (1932); The Symphony Murder Mystery (1932); The Trans-Atlantic Mystery (1932); The Wall Street Mystery (1931); The Week End Mystery (1931).

Born on this day – Burt Gillett:

Burt Gillett (left) and Walt Disney (right)   

Burt Gillett

Director

Writer

Animator

October 15, 1891 – December 28, 1971

Credits:

A Haunting We Will Go (1939); A Knight for a Day (1946); A Little Bird Told Me (1934); Academy Award Review of Walt Disney Cartoons (1937); Adventures of Tom Thumb Jr. (1940); Along Came a Duck (1934); Andy Panda Goes Fishing (1940); Arctic Antics (1930); Babes in the Woods (1932); Beach Picnic (1939); Bird Scouts (1935); Birds of a Feather (1931); Blue Rhythm (1931); Bold King Cole (1936); Brave Little Tailor (1938); Bugs in Love (1932); Cannibal Capers (1930); Casey Bats Again (1954); Disney's Halloween Treat (1984); DTV: Golden Oldies (1984); DTV: Pop & Rock (1984); DTV: Rock, Rhythm & Blues (1984); Fishin' Around (1931); Flowers and Trees (1932); Frolicking Fish (1930); Giantland (1933); Grandfather's Clock (1934); Gulliver Mickey (1934); Hunting Big Game (1920); Japanese Lanterns (1935); Just Dogs (1932); King Neptune (1932); Knock on the Window, the Door Is a Jamb (1920); Lonesome Ghosts (1937); Mickey Cuts Up (1931); Mickey Plays Papa (1934); Mickey Steps Out (1931); Mickey's Birthday Party (1953); Mickey's Gala Premier (1933); Mickey's Good Deed (1932); Mickey's House of Villains (2002); Mickey's Nightmare (1932); Mickey's Orphans (1931); Mickey's Pal Pluto (1933); Molly Moo Cow and Robinson Crusoe (1936); Molly Moo-Cow and Rip Van Winkle (1935); Molly Moo-Cow and the Butterflies (1935); Molly Moo-Cow and the Indians (1935); Monkey Melodies (1930); Moth and the Flame (1938); Mother Goose Melodies (1931); Neptune Nonsense (1936); One Good Turn Deserves Another (1920); Orphan's Benefit (1934); Parade of the Award Nominees (1932); Parrotville Old Folks (1935); Parrotville Post-Office (1935); Pastrytown Wedding (1934); Pioneer Days (1930); Playful Pan (1930); Playful Pluto (1934); Puttin' on the Dog (1944); Rag Dog (1935); Scotty Finds a Home (1935); Shanghaied (1934); Silly Superstition (1939); Snap Judgement (1920); Spinning Mice (1935); The Barnyard Broadcast (1931); The Beach Party (1931); The Big Bad Wolf (1934); The Birth of a Toothpick (1939); The Birthday Party (1931); The Busy Beavers (1931); The Castaway (1931); The Chain Gang (1930); The Delivery Boy (1931); The Duck Hunt (1932); The Dummy (1920); The Fire Fighters (1930); The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg (1936); The Gorilla Mystery (1930); The Hunting Season (1935); The Mad Dog (1932); The Merry Kittens (1935); The Moose Hunt (1931); The Parrotville Fire Department (1934); The Picnic (1930); The Picnic Panic (1935); The Pointer (1939); The Shindig (1930); The Sleeping Princess (1939); The Standard Parade (1939); The Steeple Chase (1933); The Stubborn Mule (1939); The Sunshine Makers (1935); The Thrifty Pig (1941); The Wayward Canary (1932); The Whoopee Party (1932); The Winning Ticket (1938); The Woody Woodpecker Show (1957); Three Little Pigs (1933); Three Little Wolves (1936); Tiger Trouble (1945); Toonerville Picnic (1936); Toonerville Trolley (1936); Toontown Big Shots (2006); Trader Mickey (1932); Traffic Troubles (1931); Walt Disney Cartoon Classics Limited Gold Edition II: Life with Mickey (1985); Wild Waves (1929); Winter (1930); Ye Olden Days (1933).