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I had something in my throat. It felt like I had swallowed the whole world.

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Norman Lock

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.

Fiction, Ideas, Introducing, Monologues, Narrators, Unreliable
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My fondness for extended monologue might have been encouraged by two decades of writing stage and radio dramas.

Drama, Dramas, Encouraged, Radio, Two, Writing

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 Huckleberry Finn needs critiquing for literary or social reasons.

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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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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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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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