It is more important to just be as honest as I can about my characters than to write some really great sentence. — Molly Antopol Character Copy Share Image
“But for the first time, Boaz couldn't think of a single word to describe this kind of loneliness, so scary and real… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
Stuart Rojstaczer writes with enormous wit, style and empathy, and The Mathematician's Shiva is a big-hearted, rollickingly funny novel that's impossible to… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
“Very little made him happier than pulling into his driveway and seeing, through the window, his family moving around inside, a diorama… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
There's something interesting about being really intimate and familiar with Israel, but still being American - that really thin piece of glass… — Molly Antopol Being real Copy Share Image
“But Benny was already walking through the doors and into the bright sunny day, pulling the bottle from his shirt and thrusting… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
“... having been with Boaz for so long that she could predict every one of his moves, their sex life was more… — Molly Antopol Life Copy Share Image
The Israel stories were really hard for me to write, because I think that my book is very much about politics, but… — Molly Antopol Agendas Copy Share Image
With the Israel stories, it was for me the most surprising way the title would fit in. I kept thinking about, for… — Molly Antopol America Copy Share Image
So it was doing all this research or going to the archives or doing all these interviews or traveling, and then trying… — Molly Antopol Archives Copy Share Image
It really made me nervous to write about it [Holocaust] and to approach it, because I was nervous about how to do… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
With the Holocaust - I wonder if a lot of Jewish writers of my generation have felt this way - it feels… — Molly Antopol Approach Copy Share Image
People are going to bash you. You get rejected. It's hard. I don't really feel like that's my place as the teacher.… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
Years ago I read an interview with Paula Fox in which she said that in writing, truth is just as important as… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
Raymond Carver had the quote that I loved about how he felt that a short story was the moment right before someone's… — Molly Antopol Books Copy Share Image
It's funny - for a long time, I didn't know I was writing a book. I was writing stories. For me, each… — Molly Antopol Book Copy Share Image
It was tricky [to write about Israelis], because everyone has an opinion about the Arab - Israeli conflict, and when I first… — Molly Antopol Arab israeli conflict Copy Share Image
I'm not Israeli and because I'm not a citizen, it doesn't matter how often I go there - I'm still not Israeli.… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
There are certain writers I can't read when I'm trying to write because their voices are so distinct. Cormac McCarthy, he's the… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
So if there was a way that I knew something about my character's desires or the things that they were resisting because… — Molly Antopol Books Copy Share Image
But what I realized when I was looking back at them was that no matter how different they are, they're still coming… — Molly Antopol Brain Copy Share Image
“Those moments at the dinner table, I felt as Sveta were teaching me something important: that I didn't need to make every… — Molly Antopol Dinner table Copy Share Image
The stories I love the most are where the author has a lot of empathy for everyone. The author loves their characters… — Molly Antopol Books Copy Share Image
I always tell my students to write the story all the way through, not to play with the language and fall in… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
I've always loved short stories. Even before I was a writer I was reading short stories - there were certain writers where… — Molly Antopol Books Copy Share Image
I knew that I was writing for an American audience and that if I sold foreign rights, they would retranslate the book… — Molly Antopol Audience Copy Share Image
I felt like if I could get the epiphany out of the way in my drafting process, through my eighth or tenth… — Molly Antopol Character Copy Share Image
It was this feeling for a lot of my characters, who are dissidents or banned artists and writers, that they had had… — Molly Antopol America Copy Share Image
For so many of my characters, they were political in their own countries and they risked their lives for certain political beliefs… — Molly Antopol America Copy Share Image
So in the drafting process, whenever I would discover something about what my character wanted or didn't want, I immediately just wanted… — Molly Antopol Character Copy Share Image
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