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Norman Lock Quotes: "I don't know about ground rules; but I create the world that arrives with the characters or situation or voice in my head that instigates the piece, whatever form it may take."

I don't know about ground rules; but I create the world that arrives with the characters or situation or voice in my head that instigates the piece, whatever form it may take.



Norman Lock Quotes: "I'm too ambitious to give another man credit, even if that other man is only myself in disguise."

I'm too ambitious to give another man credit, even if that other man is only myself in disguise.




Norman Lock Quotes: "I used to teach writing in a federal prison, and for my students' benefit, I would liken the narrative use of this highly personal point of view to a boxer's getting in close to his opponent."

I used to teach writing in a federal prison, and for my students' benefit, I would liken the narrative use of this highly personal point of view to a boxer's getting in close to his opponent.



Norman Lock Quotes: "The persona in my stories may be truer to my "real" self than any alleged objective, factual "I" that I could replicate for the purposes of storytelling."

The persona in my stories may be truer to my "real" self than any alleged objective, factual "I" that I could replicate for the purposes of storytelling.




Norman Lock Quotes: "Metaphysics notwithstanding, I also insert myself in my fictions for no loftier purpose than to give me pleasure: to see myself performing onstage."

Metaphysics notwithstanding, I also insert myself in my fictions for no loftier purpose than to give me pleasure: to see myself performing onstage.



Norman Lock Quotes: "I do believe we are actors in our own dramas, which, moment by moment, we ourselves write; that we are characters in our own fictions or those devised for us by someone or something else."

I do believe we are actors in our own dramas, which, moment by moment, we ourselves write; that we are characters in our own fictions or those devised for us by someone or something else.



Norman Lock Quotes: "I had hoped to be a poet, and for a long time I tried to write poetry. My first published pieces were poems."

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

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



Norman Lock Quotes: "It may be old hat, but I see no reason to close off what is for me a fruitful subject of inquiry, especially so for one, like me, who is very much interested in creating stories and novels of ideas."

It may be old hat, but I see no reason to close off what is for me a fruitful subject of inquiry, especially so for one, like me, who is very much interested in creating stories and novels of ideas.



Norman Lock Quotes: "I do seem to favor a deathbed confession as the occasion for my dramatic monologues."

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



Norman Lock Quotes: "When I was awarded a fellowship in poetry by the National Endowment for the Arts (for "Alphabets"), I felt myself suddenly (vaingloriously) equal to my Crow, which would be - I knew at once - Rat."

When I was awarded a fellowship in poetry by the National Endowment for the Arts (for "Alphabets"), I felt myself suddenly (vaingloriously) equal to my Crow, which would be - I knew at once - Rat.



Norman Lock Quotes: "For me, fiction's great gift - to writer and reader, alike - is freedom."

For me, fiction's great gift - to writer and reader, alike - is freedom.




Norman Lock Quotes: "I very much like the idea of the unreliable narrator. Shaping my fictions as monologues - by introducing the "I" - allows me to be as unreliable as I like."

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



Norman Lock Quotes: "I admitted that I did not understand life. What I meant was that I am bewildered by human hearts and motivations, including my own."

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 Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "I tell myself that, regardless of what source I draw on, I'm writing a new work for reasons peculiar to me and not an adaptation, and so feel, in the end, justified in singing it my way."

I tell myself that, regardless of what source I draw on, I'm writing a new work for reasons peculiar to me and not an adaptation, and so feel, in the end, justified in singing it my way.



Norman Lock Quotes: "My fondness for extended monologue might have been encouraged by two decades of writing stage and radio dramas."

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



Norman Lock Quotes: "I would prefer to believe that things possess the power of recall, of recollection. That things are memoirs of the existences that once were theirs, if only we knew how to read them."

I would prefer to believe that things possess the power of recall, of recollection. That things are memoirs of the existences that once were theirs, if only we knew how to read them.



Norman Lock Quotes: "For all my wanderings, I'm ordinary. I came to terms long ago with my littleness. A man is what he is--he can't rise so much as an inch above his shortcomings--Horatio Alger be damned!"

For all my wanderings, I'm ordinary. I came to terms long ago with my littleness. A man is what he is--he can't rise so much as an inch above his shortcomings--Horatio Alger be damned!



Norman Lock Quotes: "I insist on caprice as a necessary countermeasure to slavery. Otherwise, my own dictatorial mind must take -- unknown to me -- its instructions from a mastermind."

I insist on caprice as a necessary countermeasure to slavery. Otherwise, my own dictatorial mind must take -- unknown to me -- its instructions from a mastermind.



Norman Lock Quotes: "To ennoble is to diminish by robbing people of their complexity, their completeness, of their humanity, which is always clouded by what gets stirred up at the bottom."

To ennoble is to diminish by robbing people of their complexity, their completeness, of their humanity, which is always clouded by what gets stirred up at the bottom.



Norman Lock Quotes: "Hatred is unattractive, but it's also irresistible. If men were honest with themselves, they'd admit it's a stronger passion than lust."

Hatred is unattractive, but it's also irresistible. If men were honest with themselves, they'd admit it's a stronger passion than lust.