I admitted that I did not understand life. What I meant was that I am bewildered by human hearts and motivations, including… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
I admitted that I did not understand life. What I meant was that I am bewildered by human hearts and motivations, including my own. — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
I had hoped to be a poet, and for a long time I tried to write poetry. My first published pieces were poems. — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
I find it only natural for a storyteller to be interested in storytelling and, for anyone who spends the better part of his or… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
Each piece of writing I undertake, whether a story, novel, play, or poem, begins with an image. — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
I very much like the idea of the unreliable narrator. Shaping my fictions as monologues - by introducing the "I" - allows me to… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
I do seem to favor a deathbed confession as the occasion for my dramatic monologues. — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
I do believe we are actors in our own dramas, which, moment by moment, we ourselves write; that we are characters in our own… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
The critique of social inequality, which is very much a part of my story, came about naturally from my recollection of Huck and Tom… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
Theatre aside, my penchant for the extended monologue began with my reading of Browning's dramatic monologues, in high school. My inclination to adopt the… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
In nearly everything I write, I am like a ventriloquist, throwing my voice into my characters, animating them by the slightest twitch as I… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
It may be old hat, but I see no reason to close off what is for me a fruitful subject of inquiry, especially so… — Norman Lock Copy Share 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,… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
![“The critique of social inequality, which is very much a part of my story, came about naturally from my recollection of Huck and Tom and the controversy surrounding [Mark] Twain's use of them and from my own passionate interest in civil rights, animal rights, and the right of Earth to survive…” quote by Norman Lock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/26b/norman-lock-21222_animal_the-critique-of-social-inequality-which_145721.jpg)
