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All Quotes by author - Ann-Marie MacDonald

" '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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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