Molly corresponds with children of the Kindertransport, reads a great deal about the Holocaust, and wants to go to Europe this summer to visit her family s roots. Everyone in my family is a writer, says Molly, correcting the myth that her mother was her inspiration. It s an amazing career. You can create something and profoundly influence people s lives. But writing is also a hard and lonely profession, like pushing a rock up a hill, she says.
People think it s easy.
I write about 15 novels each year and then throw them out, she says. I rewrite like crazy. So much of writing is intentional you have to know everything in order to make choices. Now Molly agrees it is a calling. I get ideas from everyone I know or have met, Molly says about what inspires her.