Dinner table Quote 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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,…

— 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…

— Molly Antopol

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Molly Antopol