shy (and/or sullen and/or socially withdrawn or inexperienced) adj.: farouche
[One who is described as “farouche” may have one, two, or all of the above traits, and the example given here suggests all three. It is from an essay by the novelist Elizabeth Bowen about herself. See also untamed.]
Perhaps one emotional reason why one may write is the need to work off, out of the system, the sense of being solitary and farouche. Solitary and farouche people don’t have relationships: they are quite unrelatable. If you and I were capable of being altogether house-trained and made jolly, we should be nicer people but not writers. (Chris Hopkins [quoting the Elizabeth Bowen essay referenced above], “Elizabeth Bowen,” Review of Contemporary Fiction, 6/22/2001.)
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