What is "interior monologue"

Usage examples of "interior monologue".

He puts the technique of the interior monologue to excellent use here, mixing spoken and unspoken thoughts with sometimes hilarious effect.

The other Pierre des Jardins novel in her computer's memory was his universally acclaimed chef d'oeuvre, I Richard Coeur de Lion, a mixture of first-person diary and interior monologue, set during two winter weeks at the end of the twelfth century.

A voice inside his head, the beautiful, melodious voice of the only woman he had ever loved unconditionally, interceded in his interior monologue.

There were contractions of his brows, and abrupt openings of his right hand, as if he were replying to the last counsels of a dark interior monologue.

Whenever his eyes closed, his brain ran a loud interior monologue, rehearsals for his talk with Brooke.

I'm writing a novel using the direct interior monologue technique.

This analysis of the mental process had an important influence on many twentieth-century writers, especially Marcel Proust and James Joyce, who both developed further the technique known as interior monologue or stream of consciousness.

Or would have been comfortable were he not, in the words of his own interior monologue, such a wastrel.