With the Holocaust - I wonder if a lot of Jewish writers of my generation have felt this way - it feels… — 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… — Molly Antopol 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 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
