Arts Episodes

“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