interior monologue

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Lines that could be from a transcript of a tetchy interpersonal skirmish will be followed by a pensive fragment plucked from some regretful or aggrieved interior monologue.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2022

In pages-long, often dialogue-heavy sections without paragraph breaks, quotation marks or full stops, Petterson shares his character’s interior monologue.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2022

Peppered with amusing person-on-the-street commentary, set off in their own smaller frames, this is a woman's interior monologue brought to life as both candid semi-autobiographical memoir and cinematic fantasia.

From Washington Post • Oct. 5, 2020

The interior monologue of a character is not particularly reproducible as film, and that’s why so much of Roth has been hard for people to adapt.

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2020

The two friends conjectured his mental labor from his concentrated look, and the low exclamations which were escaping him like the echoes of an interior monologue.

From The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Jordan, Charlotte Brewster