I find it only natural for a storyteller to be interested in storytelling and, for anyone who spends the better part of his or her life writing fiction, it is hardly surprising that the pleasures, worries, and mechanics of fiction-making… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
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. — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 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)
