Molly Antopol Quotes

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

What I like about writing a stand alone novel is you're starting with a fresh world and fresh characters. Part of what I love about writing is that journey of discovery where it's all new to me as well.

I could name you a dozen superheroes whose powers I'd like to have. But if I could have any power in the world, it would be the power to read or watch a creative work and absorb the technical skill of the people who made it. Because then I could have even more fun writing. That's my core identity. I'm a writer. I just love telling stories.

I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally.

One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.' I wrote my own version and my teacher had it bound and permitted me to read it to the class - cementing my love of reading, writing and Roald Dahl!

I like writing books. I really love words. I love to read.

Personally, I've made myself a very small window of what I enjoy in this business, which is I love being a big part of the storytelling process.

I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script.

I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them.

I've still got lots of writing in me. I have not left journalism, but I put it on hold to focus on acting. I love actors. I think it's a crazy thing to do with your life, and I have a tremendous amount of respect for them.

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.

I hope to continue writing. I hope to continue teaching.

I write, I teach, I direct. I sail around the world for Holland America two months out of every year doing a seminar where we discuss film or theater and do improvisations.

I love to write. I write everything across the board - kids' stories and novels and scripts. I actually would like to give that a go; I'd like to try to be a writer.

Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.

I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.

I get to do what I love every day. I get to crawl into someone else's head and I love that.

I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing.

I have been writing since I was a kid. I also traveled a good deal for my work and did extended stays in places like Geneva.

I love writing. I love to write, and I would eventually love to have some of my work produced.

I'm a novelist at heart. How's that? And that's how I make my living, is I write novels.

There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but in the history of their manufacture, which is filled with raids, battles, lonely pioneers, great gambles, hope, fear, despair, triumph. If some of our novels could be written by the typewriters instead of on them, how much better they would be.

Writing novels takes up about 100% of my available working time.

Largely I write from life. ... I write from what happens to me. Mostly about love. People notice the other stuff more but I write mostly about love.

I'd like to ghost-write Liz Phair's novel. But I don't really know about that. It seems like a dignified thing to segue into as I approach the other side of 45. My hands are just full right now. There's the potential to try to write some kind of biography of Pavement - sort of a cryptic, nonfiction/fiction blowout. The story's never been told well. But that's a lot of inward-gazing that I'm not sure I want to do. I like to look out.