Metaphysics notwithstanding, I also insert myself in my fictions for no loftier purpose than to give me pleasure: to see myself performing onstage.
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.
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 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.
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…
For me, fiction's great gift - to writer and reader, alike - is freedom. - Norman Lock
For me, fiction's great gift - to writer and reader, alike - is freedom.
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…
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…
I very much like the idea of the unreliable narrator. Shaping my fictions as monologues - by introducing the "I" - allows me to be as unreliable as I… - Norman Lock
I very much like the idea of the unreliable narrator. Shaping my fictions as monologues - by introducing the "I" - allows me to be as unreliable as I…
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