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
writing tasks left
Writing is a hellish task, best snuck up on, whacked on the head, robbed and left for dead.
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.
memories play knees
Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.
horse kings fall
Tell the story, gather the events, repeat them. Pattern is a matter of upkeep. Otherwise the weave relaxes back to threads picked up by birds to make their nests. Repeat, or the story will fall and all the king's horses and all the king's men. . . . Repeat, and cradle the pieces carefully, or events will scatter like marbles on a wooden floor.
lying sacrifice knees
Lies like that are not a sin, they are a sacrifice.
thieves stealing mere
The thief you must fear the most is not the one who steals mere things.
believe thinking people
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?
depression grief panic
Depression is anger slowed down; panic is grief speeded up.