Ann-Marie MacDonald Quotes

One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer.

In high school, I wanted to be an actress. Until I got to college and took some creative writing courses. Then I decided I wanted to become a novelist.

I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor.

I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.

I dreamed of being an actress when I was a little kid because you don't know then that the writer writes everything the actor is saying. But as I got older, I got into college and became more aware that writing is another option, and I started getting into it, too.

I always have something big enough to say as a playwright. It's storytelling.

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

I started out as a novelist and wrote several novels before deciding to publish one, and I fully intend to go back to the form.

I didn't have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream of being a novelist and a poet.

I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.

I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.

I want to be a playwright the way people are bank tellers. I want to keep doing it and have it go steadily and smoothly.

I started writing because I wanted to write scripts, but I wasn't very good at it. Then I started writing short stories, sort of as treatments for the film scripts, and I found I enjoyed writing short stories far more than I enjoyed writing film scripts. Then the short stories got longer and longer and suddenly, I had novels.

I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English.

Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful. I was only 100 pages into the novel and I had about 90 pages of movie script going. I realized I had a lot to learn.

I'm sort lucky in that for me, I'm a writer now. I started as an actor but I'm a writer and so things like 'Wilfred' and shows like that are where I escape to.

When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.

I've been interested in the writing/directing thing and really fell into acting by complete accident.

Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there.

The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.

I wanted to be a novelist from a very early age - 11 or 12 - but I don't think I ever thought I would write historical fiction. I never thought I might write academic history because I simply wasn't good enough!

I write plays instinctively. I don't like writing movie scripts.

Being an actor started me writing, and that led to directing.

When I was about 12, I spent the summer writing four plays on my dad's old typewriter for a school play competition. And I wrote little comic bits at secondary school and at university.