Arts Episodes

"When I got my initial edits for my first book, my ego was so hurt. I thought it was great, but the editor tore it up. She was right, but I put it away for about four months because I couldn’t look at it…that setback taught me not to take edits personally and to keep moving forward." – Amani Roberts

“Every mountain that appeared in front of me, I decided to climb it and I recommend everybody do that. I'm all about the happiness, the challenging yourself and feeling better and learning more about yourself in those challenges. Because once you do that, you're going to be more confident the next …

“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 …

“Let's think of ourselves as emotional explorers. And we're always like that. You know, Raiders of the Lost Ark exploration because we want to have that excitement that I think education and understanding new things gives us.” – Ivana Chubbuck

“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 Ka…

“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

“The things that are most challenging are those that also help us grow and expand and experience life more richly.” – Lisa Tener

“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

“An uncluttered life is an abundant life, and that seems very counterintuitive. We tend to think of abundance as a lot of whatever, and therefore we clutter up our lives. But truly, when we have a life that is not cluttered, we can really live the abundant life that we were designed to live.” – Ang…

“Sometimes dreams can help us even in the darkest of times.” – Isa Adney

“If you write for 15 minutes a day, you can get out about 250 words. In 200 days, that's 50,000 words. That's a book. So, where were you 200 days ago?” – Sam Bennett

“I owed it to people in my family who were phenomenal individuals and to my own sense of pride to finish this book.” – Anya Gillinson

"The act of writing is a way for me to physically see what goes on in my brain. It's amazing what will be revealed to me when I read it back, and it's a way for me to check in on where my mind is at, where my heart is at, and my mental health in general.” – Kristina Smeriglio

“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

“You can't produce results if you don't take a step.” – Joy Adedoyin Fashagba

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

“You can't avoid the tough stuff, but there's always a lesson in it.” – Maggie Mills

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

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

“When I was using and a drug addict and an alcoholic, I was channeling spirits that I definitely should not have been, mixing with energy that was dangerous and detrimental to me.” – Maria Teresa Pratico