Ann-Marie MacDonald quotes

In terms of the secrets that imbue and underlie Fall on Your Knees, they were as much of a mystery to me as I was creating the story as they are to the readers. (Ann-Marie MacDonald)

Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

Do you think there's such a thing as a ghost who masquerades as a person? Do you believe that there are people whose bodies are still alive here on earth but whose souls are already in hell?

Ann-Marie MacDonald

They are so young, they forget that the world is not as in love with them as they are.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

Some people talk about children wanting to be born as though somewhere out there in the collective unconscious there's a spirit, or a thought or an idea that wants to be born. And I sometimes feel that way about stories... that they're there and they want to be told.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

I started my career as an actor, then morphed into a playwright who accidentally became a novelist with my first book 'Fall On Your Knees.'

Ann-Marie MacDonald

You can tell a lot about a person by the people who work for them.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

I grew up moving around because my dad was in the Air Force - I think this has carried over into my work in that I like to hop around from one medium to another.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

There are some stories you can't hear enough. They are the same every time you hear them. But you are not. That's one reliable way of understanding time.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it. To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

Ann-Marie MacDonald

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Occupation: Canadian Playwright
Born: October 29, 1958
Quotes count: 10

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