Citas de Norman Lock

• As a practical matter, I like the dramatic monologue for its compelling intimacy. To be inside one's character, to register his or her every vagrant thought, emotion, and response - the first-person viewpoint grants this privilege and immediacy.

  Norman Lock

  Character, Viewpoints, Matter

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• Debido a una inestabilidad en mi propio núcleo, me reconforta vivir, fijo, dentro de una historia. Si la lectura es nuestro consuelo por haber tenido una sola vida, creo que escribirse a uno mismo en un mundo ficticio es aún más reconfortante.

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  Reading, Writing, Comforting

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

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  Drama, Writing, Two

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• 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.

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  Writing, Singing, Peculiar

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• 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.

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  Drama, Believe, Writing

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

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  Favors, Dramatic, Confession

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• 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.

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  Character, Voice, Pieces

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• 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.

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  Escritura, carácter, voz

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• My fictional worlds were those of a fabulist, of an intellectual fantasist. I was the lawgiver, and the countries and inhabitants of my imagination were answerable to me. If I wished for a man to levitate; to enter another's story by rowboat or by intoning a sentence or by performing a shadow-puppet play; if I wanted him to become a swarm of intelligent elementary particles and enter the Internet and travel into the past and far into the future, it was so.

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  Country, Intelligent, Past

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

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  Writing, Play, Stories

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

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  Giving, Purpose, Fiction

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• 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 humankind's reprehensible neglect of its stewardship.

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  Animal, Rights, Stories

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• Soy demasiado ambicioso para dar crédito a otro hombre, aunque ese otro hombre sea yo mismo disfrazado.

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  Men, Giving, Ambitious

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• 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.

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  Believe, Stories, Use

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• I admitted that I did not understand life. What I meant was that I am bewildered by human hearts and motivations, including my own.

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  Motivation, Heart, Humans

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

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  Fiction, Reader, Great Gifts

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• 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.

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  Writing, Views, Use

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• A first-person voice helps to ensure the uniformity and cohesiveness of the narrative; it gathers unto itself incidents and characters in its unstoppable progress toward the story's end.

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  Character, Voice, Progress

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• 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.

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  Real, Self, Purpose

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• 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.

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  Ideas, Narrators, Fiction

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• Many of my short fictions use theatre as a metaphor for situations in which characters find themselves estranged from the larger, uncontrollable world that may or may not lie beyond the proscenium arch.

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  Lying, Character, Theatre

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• Emotional, physical, and spiritual estrangement and ontological and religious doubt inform my personality, my thoughts, and my characters, which are, more often than not, masks for my own being and my being in the world - a world that frightens me insofar as I don't understand it.

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  Spiritual, Religious, Character

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• Puede que sea algo viejo, pero no veo razón para cerrar lo que para mí es un fructífero tema de investigación, especialmente para alguien, como yo, que está muy interesado en crear historias y novelas de ideas.

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  Ideas, Creating, Inquiry

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• 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 should enter the work.

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  Writing, Worry, Fiction

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• I had hoped to be a poet, and for a long time I tried to write poetry. My first published pieces were poems.

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  Writing, Long, Pieces

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