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

I do seem to favor a deathbed confession as the occasion for my dramatic monologues.

- 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…

- Norman Lock

My fondness for extended monologue might have been encouraged by two decades of writing stage and radio dramas.

- 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…

- Norman Lock

For me, fiction's great gift - to writer and reader, alike - is freedom.

- 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…

- 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 …

- 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…

- Norman Lock