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> [Years ago I read an interview with Paula Fox in which she said that in writing, truth is just as important as story. Reading that interview was the first time I really understood that there's no point in trying to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/molly-antopol/years-ago-i-read-an-interview-with-paula-fox-in-which-she-said-that/)

[Molly Antopol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/molly-antopol/)

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## More by Molly Antopol

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/molly-antopol/so-if-there-was-a-way-that-i-knew-something-about-my-character-s/)

[Molly Antopol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/molly-antopol/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/molly-antopol/but-for-the-first-time-boaz-couldn-t-think-of-a-single-word-to/)

[Molly Antopol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/molly-antopol/)

> [“... having been with Boaz for so long that she could predict every one of his moves, their sex life was more like a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/molly-antopol/having-been-with-boaz-for-so-long-that-she-could-predict-every-one-of/)

[Molly Antopol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/molly-antopol/)

> [I always tell my students to write the story all the way through, not to play with the language and fall in love with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/molly-antopol/i-always-tell-my-students-to-write-the-story-all-the-way-through-not/)

[Molly Antopol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/molly-antopol/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/molly-antopol/the-israel-stories-were-really-hard-for-me-to-write-because-i-think/)

[Molly Antopol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/molly-antopol/)

> [Years ago I read an interview with Paula Fox in which she said that in writing, truth is just as important as story. Reading…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/molly-antopol/years-ago-i-read-an-interview-with-paula-fox-in-which-she-said-that/)

[Molly Antopol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/molly-antopol/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/molly-antopol/people-are-going-to-bash-you-you-get-rejected-it-s-hard-i-don-t/)

[Molly Antopol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/molly-antopol/)

> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/molly-antopol/but-what-i-realized-when-i-was-looking-back-at-them-was-that-no/)

[Molly Antopol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/molly-antopol/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/molly-antopol/it-s-funny-for-a-long-time-i-didn-t-know-i-was-writing-a-book-i-was/)

[Molly Antopol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/molly-antopol/)

> [With the Holocaust - I wonder if a lot of Jewish writers of my generation have felt this way - it feels really intimidating…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/molly-antopol/with-the-holocaust-i-wonder-if-a-lot-of-jewish-writers-of-my/)

[Molly Antopol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/molly-antopol/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/molly-antopol/raymond-carver-had-the-quote-that-i-loved-about-how-he-felt-that-a/)

[Molly Antopol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/molly-antopol/)

> [I felt like if I could get the epiphany out of the way in my drafting process, through my eighth or tenth draft, then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/molly-antopol/i-felt-like-if-i-could-get-the-epiphany-out-of-the-way-in-my-drafting/)

[Molly Antopol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/molly-antopol/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/molly-antopol/i-m-not-israeli-and-because-i-m-not-a-citizen-it-doesn-t-matter-how/)

[Molly Antopol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/molly-antopol/)

> [With the Israel stories, it was for me the most surprising way the title would fit in. I kept thinking about, for a lot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/molly-antopol/with-the-israel-stories-it-was-for-me-the-most-surprising-way-the/)

[Molly Antopol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/molly-antopol/)

> [There's something interesting about being really intimate and familiar with Israel, but still being American - that really thin piece of glass between me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/molly-antopol/there-s-something-interesting-about-being-really-intimate-and/)

[Molly Antopol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/molly-antopol/)

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