In nearly everything I write, I am like a ventriloquist, throwing my voice into my characters, animating them by the slightest twitch as I register my anxieties and alarms. This is true even in my comedies. — 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
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
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
Each piece of writing I undertake, whether a story, novel, play, or poem, begins with an image. — Norman Lock Copy Share
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
I do seem to favor a deathbed confession as the occasion for my dramatic monologues. — Norman Lock Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
Many of my short fictions use theatre as a metaphor for situations in which characters find themselves estranged from the larger, uncontrollable world that… — Norman Lock Copy Share
I used to teach writing in a federal prison, and for my students' benefit, I would liken the narrative use of this highly personal… — Norman Lock Copy Share
I haven't the stature to critique one of our literature's great novels, Tobias; and I'm not one of those who believe The Adventures of… — Norman Lock Copy Share
