Needs Quotes by Norman Lock

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

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

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

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

— Norman Lock

I very much like the idea of the unreliable narrator. Shaping my fictions as monologues - by introducing the "I" - allows me to…

— Norman Lock

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

— Norman Lock

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

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

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

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

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

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