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

Quote by Norman Lock

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Norman Lock is an individual born in 1950, with an unknown profession or category. Detailed information about him is limited at this time. more

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“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.”

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

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