Book Quote by Norman Lock

My fondness for extended monologue might have been encouraged by two decades of writing stage and radio dramas.

— Norman Lock

My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language

— Elfriede Jelinek

The monologue is one of the most difficult and interesting forms of theatre for an actor to learn.

— Pratik Gandhi

Sometimes I'll ask the book writer to write a monologue, not to be performed, just as if they were notes for the character.

— Stephen Sondheim

When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and technique I…

— Truman Capote

I always was interested in prose. As a teenager, I published short stories. And I always wanted to write the long short story, I…

— Sylvia Plath

When I started writing short stories, I thought I was writing a novel. I had like 60 or 70 pages. And what I realized…

— Shane Carruth

I think a lot of people who go to drama school have this ease with the text and they all have five monologues that…

— Tavis Smiley

You might learn as much about how to write by reading Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Wallace Stevens, Raymond Chandler, Saul Bellow, Paul Muldoon or a hundred…

— David Denby

The first book was my first attempt at writing full-length prose.

— Neil Simon

As a writer, I haven't delved into dramatic writing. As an actor, I could always, even more so than comedy, do drama.

— Jonah Hill

I've been writing since I was a kid. Short stories, poetry, and all of that, and acting is just an extension of that. It…

— Omar Epps