“I love being in the archives, traveling, sitting in dusty places and l...” — Molly Antopol Quote

“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.”

“The idea that we should write towards the unknown aspects of our experience was totally groundbreaking for me. It gave me the license I needed to try to write outside myself. This attitude has deeply informed my approach to fiction, emboldening me to write characters with voices or situations that are vastly different from my own.”

“I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.”

“As a designer looking to the future, you don't want to get lost in the archives.”

“I'm so grateful for archives like Wayback Machine, who for 15 years have been creating snapshots of almost the entire web.”