#i'm currently going so far that i'm watching interviews with writers whose existence i'm aware of but would never voluntarily read

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Maybe fiction writers are in situations where they are expected to think more and perform less compared to actors and entertainers so they come across as if they are engaging their introverted functions?

Interesting thought, and you are right that they absolutely perform less, but that's what makes typing them so much easier. I'm actually really enjoying myself watching all these interviews with writers because none of them are out there playing the entertainer like your typical celebrity does (also, the interviews are a lot more interesting than your usual Hollywood gossip). The writers behave like normal people you meet every day and luckily, I could find some really long interviews with a lot of them where they get to talk in depth about their writing process, which directly tells you about how their mind works. But the extroverted writers (and there are a lot) don't necessarily appear more introverted, just less like entertainers. Some of the introverts, however, take their sweet time answering questions. I watched an hour long interview (from the 70s if I remember correctly) with Wolfgang Koeppen (an INFP) earlier this week and sometimes, he'd just straight up not answer a question for like half a minute (and he was allowed to do that on television at that time! Can you imagine that happening today? Unbelievable. I love these old interviews). Also (not related to your question, but while I'm on topic and since that interview is in German, so most of you probably won't see it), it's amazing to watch such old interviews with accomplished writers and have the interviewer ask a question such as "what do you consider your greatest achievement?" and him saying "surviving the Third Reich without making myself dirty." And then they go on and talk about what happiness really is and he is debating it with himself, poking fun at Goethe for saying that he was possibly happy for two minutes in his life, only to come around saying a few minutes later that he himself has literally never been happy ever. And not even for comedy! This was not a performance. Where else do you get these kinds of interviews? Have I mentioned that I love these interviews?