Ann-Marie MacDonald
Ann-Marie MacDonald
Ann-Marie MacDonaldis a Canadian playwright, novelist, actor and broadcast journalist who lives in Montreal, Quebec. The daughter of a member of Canada's military, she was born at an air force base near Baden-Baden, West Germany. She is of Lebanese descent through her mother...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth29 October 1958
CountryCanada
charlotte difficult formative pin point
Reading was such a formative part of my childhood (along with 'Loony Tunes'), that it is difficult to pin point the most influential book. But, under an interrogation light I would probably have to say 'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Bronte.
children collective people somewhere though wanting wants
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.
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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.
family grew love moved reason stories
I grew up in a family where the love of stories is very strong. And there's also a love of performance. I think one reason stories were so important in my family was that we moved around a lot.
people work
You can tell a lot about a person by the people who work for them.
family secrets stories truths
'Fall on Your Knees' is really a story about secrets and family, and the idea that there are some stories or truths that need to be expressed.
became novelist playwright
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.'
fall creating secret
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.
understanding way stories
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.
going-for-it pieces may
Piece by piece living is hard to do. It may even feel like the hardest thing. But it has this going for it: you never need to know what it is you're carrying on your shoulders.
judging world failing
The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear, we should not judge.
brother father talking
Materia had been just six when they docked in Sydney Harbour and her father said, 'Look. This is the New World. Anything is possible here.' She's been too young to realize that he was talking to her brother.
powerful past thinking
You think you're safe. Until you see a picture like that. And then you know you'll always be a slave to the present because the present is more powerful than the past, no matter how long ago the present happened.
world knees forget
They are so young, they forget that the world is not as in love with them as they are.