Quotes by Norman Lock

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 unstoppable progress toward the story’s end.

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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 thought, emotion, and response – the first-person viewpoint grants this privilege and immediacy.

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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 one life, I find that writing oneself into a fictional world is even more comforting.

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Writing

Each piece of writing I undertake, whether a story, novel, play, or poem, begins with an image.

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Emotional, physical, and spiritual estrangement and ontological and religious doubt inform my personality, my thoughts, and my characters, which are, more often than not, masks for my own being and my being in the world – a world that frightens me insofar as I don’t understand it.

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Religious

Spiritual

Eventually, I came to believe, stupidly, that I had exhausted that story’s “original” form with its single use. I went on to other stories, other forms and genres.

Believe

Stories

Use

For me, fiction’s great gift – to writer and reader, alike – is freedom.

Fiction

Great Gifts

Reader

I admitted that I did not understand life. What I meant was that I am bewildered by human hearts and motivations, including my own.

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Humans

Motivation

I do believe we are actors in our own dramas, which, moment by moment, we ourselves write; that we are characters in our own fictions or those devised for us by someone or something else.

Believe

Drama

Writing

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

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Quotes by Norman Lock

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 unstoppable progress toward the story’s end.

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 thought, emotion, and response – the first-person viewpoint grants this privilege and immediacy.

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 one life, I find that writing oneself into a fictional world is even more comforting.

Each piece of writing I undertake, whether a story, novel, play, or poem, begins with an image.

Emotional, physical, and spiritual estrangement and ontological and religious doubt inform my personality, my thoughts, and my characters, which are, more often than not, masks for my own being and my being in the world – a world that frightens me insofar as I don’t understand it.

Eventually, I came to believe, stupidly, that I had exhausted that story’s “original” form with its single use. I went on to other stories, other forms and genres.

For me, fiction’s great gift – to writer and reader, alike – is freedom.

I admitted that I did not understand life. What I meant was that I am bewildered by human hearts and motivations, including my own.

I do believe we are actors in our own dramas, which, moment by moment, we ourselves write; that we are characters in our own fictions or those devised for us by someone or something else.

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

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