“One of the things I admire about longer stories is the way writers can...” — Molly Antopol Quote

“One of the things I admire about longer stories is the way writers can work with dead time and slower, more idle moments - not only can they feel expansive, they feel lived-in; the unhurried pacing often makes the endings even more resonant and surprising for me.”

“I'd be lying if I said that any part of writing is easy for me, but I have always found that setting comes more naturally to me than, say, writing action scenes.”

“I love being in the archives, traveling, sitting in dusty places and looking at books with brittle pages. I love reading biographies and researching, to make myself informed about whatever political or historical time I'm writing about. From there, a lot of the emotional truths about my characters emerge.”

“One of the guys I admire in this sport is Andre Ward... I kind of hang on to every word that Dre says. I really admire him and everything he's been through in this sport.”

“I wish I was a more religious person. I really admire Martin Sheen for his Catholicism. It's such a bedrock. I wish I had that in my life.”

“There is no other artist who I admire and love as much as I love Bjork.”