Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips. — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“I love my rejection slips. They show me I try. (This quote is probably wrongly attributed to Sylvia Plath)” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them.… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted, sent them… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long. — Louise Brown Copy Share Image
You do it a day at a time. You just put your rejection slips in a shoebox and tell yourself one day… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all… — Lisa Alther Copy Share Image
Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil-but there is… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
All the other kids in ninth grade were drawing hot rods and cocker spaniels and getting blue ribbons in art class. I… — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
To ward off a feeling of failure, she joked that she could wallpaper her bathroom with rejection slips, which she chose not… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
I've got a folder full of rejection slips that I keep. Know why? Because those same editors are now calling my agent… — MaryJanice Davidson Copy Share Image
I had immediate success in the sense that I sold something right off the bat. I thought it was going to be… — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share Image
Most writers, including myself, had to endure a lot of rejections before finally getting published. You could wallpaper a sizeable bathroom with… — Jonathan Weeks Copy Share Image
It had been fourteen years and I hadn't had anything published. I had 250 rejection slips. I got my first novel published… — Lisa Alther Copy Share Image
I've been trying to write a book since before I was old enough to vote, and I've collected many rejection slips from… — J. R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
It's a shame publishers send rejection slips. Writers should get something more substantial than a slip that amounts to a pile of… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
