I've always loved short stories. Even before I was a writer I was reading short stories - there were certain writers where I just felt like they could do in a short story what so many writers needed a whole… — 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 most different writer from anything I've ever written, but there's something about those really spare sentences that is… — 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 I was… — Molly Antopol 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 it required… — 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 like a… — Molly Antopol 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 love with… — Molly Antopol 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 it isn't… — 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 story. Reading… — Molly Antopol 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. I think… — Molly Antopol 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 from me,… — Molly Antopol 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 story took… — 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 really intimidating… — 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 life was… — Molly Antopol 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 draft, then… — Molly Antopol 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. There's this… — Molly Antopol 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 a lot… — 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 between me… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
