Fiction Writers Episodes

“I highly recommend just choosing and curating the stories that you want to in the world that you think need to be told, but that nobody else knows apart from you because you've just uncovered the stories.” – Tash Doherty

“Whether you want to publish a book or get paid to be a writer as your job, there are so many different ways to earn money as a writer. I hope people don't immediately think, 'Oh, being a writer means you're going to be broke.' I thought that growing up, and I was scared of becoming a writer until I proved myself wrong.” – Amy Suto

“I've learned to be a lot more gentle with myself. I'm usually my own harshest critic, and with this trilogy, I really allowed myself to be proud of what I accomplished.” – J.F. Monroe

“What better accomplishment could you have under your belt than being able to hand somebody a book with your name on it, saying, this is me.” – Danielle Hutchinson

“Good people make a difference in this world, and when we find good people, we need to gather them together in a community, and things beyond us will happen.” – Amy Olmedo

“Don't let fear stop you with anything you want to do.” – Dawne Christine

“Writing is always there for you, even if life stops you from writing for a few days, weeks, or years. It's like yoga; you just have to get back on the mat.” – Sarah Seltzer

“Every rejection gets you where you’re meant to be.” – Tuula Costelloe

"It's one of the things that people in both films and books woefully underestimate—the amount of time and effort. We can write a screenplay that's fantastic, we can write a book that's amazing, but that's just a third of it. Getting it out there to the world is a whole different thing." – Autumn Karen

“You owe the people you can see the best you can offer because you have to not only take care of yourself but also the people around you.” – Art Bell

“It often takes years to understand our feelings and those reasons when at a time we already have a gut feeling about it.” – Flora Qian

“I believe that if you have a mission and a passion in life, the universe will conspire in some way to help you with that.” – Melody Horrill

“When you're taking on a new role as an actor, you do a lot of digging into what makes your character tick and what's not on the page that you need to know to bring that character to life. So, a lot of that translates to helping fiction authors create their own characters.” – Sarah Welch

“It’s a nice gift when inspiration drops out of thin air, but if you want to take your craft seriously, you need to take responsibility for creating your own inspiration by building your own habits and doing it consistently.” – William Klem

“When I'm writing, characters come into the book that I hadn't planned for, and they just pop in and insist on being part of the story. Out of the mess comes the magic, and out of the mess comes the beauty.” – Kae Wagner

"I saw people in their apocalypse, their version of the apocalypse. They not only survived it, but they did so with hope and with courage, forgiving each other and working together across the lines where they normally would have been at odds." – C.C. Robinson

“You gotta throw a little spice into whatever it is that you're doing, regardless of whether everybody's got the same idea.” – Dilgilio Rodriguez

“I literally have been writing all my life, and it's just really in the last five or six years that I finally knuckled down and said, ‘I really want to do something with this. I really want my stories out there.’” – Jayna Locke

“Fear is not a reason for being a coward. You can be very courageous and still have a lot of fear.” – Dr. Afarin Bellisario

“One of the goals I was hoping for the book is for people to understand just how fragile this all is and to appreciate the people we care about.” – Dr. Gary Simonds

“Don’t be afraid to be yourself.” – Carlos Baker

“Life's too serious to take seriously.” – Victor Acquista, M.D.

"Technology has changed so much that the gatekeepers are no more. There's nothing stopping people from writing a book except themselves." – Christopher Greyson

“When I talk about wanting the characters to come alive, I'm really wanting to show people how to take care of their soul, heart, mind and decision making.” – Dr. Lisa Dorsey