For me, fiction's great gift - to writer and reader, alike - is freedom.
Because of an instability at my own core, it comforts me to live, fixed, within a story. If reading is our consolation for having been allotted only … - Norman Lock
Because of an instability at my own core, it comforts me to live, fixed, within a story. If reading is our consolation for having been allotted only …
- Norman Lock
My fondness for extended monologue might have been encouraged by two decades of writing stage and radio dramas. - Norman Lock
My fondness for extended monologue might have been encouraged by two decades of writing stage and radio dramas.
For me, fiction's great gift - to writer and reader, alike - is freedom. - Norman Lock
I do seem to favor a deathbed confession as the occasion for my dramatic monologues. - Norman Lock
I do seem to favor a deathbed confession as the occasion for my dramatic monologues.
A first-person voice helps to ensure the uniformity and cohesiveness of the narrative; it gathers unto itself incidents and characters in its unstopp… - Norman Lock
A first-person voice helps to ensure the uniformity and cohesiveness of the narrative; it gathers unto itself incidents and characters in its unstopp…
I used to teach writing in a federal prison, and for my students' benefit, I would liken the narrative use of this highly personal point of view to a… - Norman Lock
I used to teach writing in a federal prison, and for my students' benefit, I would liken the narrative use of this highly personal point of view to a…
The persona in my stories may be truer to my "real" self than any alleged objective, factual "I" that I could replicate for the purposes of storytell… - Norman Lock
The persona in my stories may be truer to my "real" self than any alleged objective, factual "I" that I could replicate for the purposes of storytell…
As a practical matter, I like the dramatic monologue for its compelling intimacy. To be inside one's character, to register his or her every vagrant … - Norman Lock
As a practical matter, I like the dramatic monologue for its compelling intimacy. To be inside one's character, to register his or her every vagrant …
I tell myself that, regardless of what source I draw on, I'm writing a new work for reasons peculiar to me and not an adaptation, and so feel, in the… - Norman Lock
I tell myself that, regardless of what source I draw on, I'm writing a new work for reasons peculiar to me and not an adaptation, and so feel, in the…
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