“I would make cold calls with the goal of getting 100 rejections out of the way.” — Gabe Arnold Copy Share Image
“If you live for people's acceptance then you will die from their rejections” — Lacrae Copy Share Image
Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I faced innumerable rejections and resorted to surgery to improve my looks and appearance. — Rakhi Sawant Copy Share Image
“The word 'NO' is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you.” — A.K. Kuykendall Copy Share Image
I'm the absolute worst at getting jobs, ever. I had 100 rejections before I landed one. I kept all the letters in… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
I need work. I still audition for work. I don't get offered things out of nowhere. I have to work hard, still,… — Bojana Novakovic Copy Share Image
The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was… — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
When I got out of high school, I wanted to be an actor but was getting a lot of rejections. I was… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
REJECTIONS Has A Useful Purpose That Is, For Us To Learn Either To Change Ourselves For The Better Or To Justify Who… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
When I finished the book [The Dissemblers], I sent it to one billion agents, and got one billion rejections. — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me. — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh. — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Keep reading and writing, learn how to revise, and push through rejections. My second book, Monsoon Summer, was rejected over 20 times… — Mitali Perkins Copy Share Image
Audrey was a princess, so natural, the camera really loved her... James and I kept each other company during all the rejections.… — Ben Gazzara Copy Share Image
If you are going to be a writer, you have to have self-belief, every writer gets rejections, they say the difference between… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
“Note to aspiring writers: This is actually not that many rejections in the grand scheme of things. I know published writers whose… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“Keep this in mind, my friends: don’t expect life to love you always! In life, you shall sometimes see true rejection and… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
When I was 19, 20 I faced rejections. When I turned 20 I signed my south film and by the time I… — Nikki Tamboli Copy Share Image
“To write a lot, you should rethink your mental models of rejection and publication. Rejections are like a sales tax on publications:… — Paul J. Silvia Copy Share Image
Don't worry about the rejections. Everybody that's good has gone through it. Don't let it matter if your works are not "accepted"… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Early rejections are really tough, especially when all of your friends who you went to school with now have legitimate jobs, are… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
“Gabriel was stunned by Pandora's compassion for a man who had caused her such harm. He shook his head in wonder as… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
As a journalist, you sort of grind away, taking rejections as they come, building on whatever advances you've achieved. — Robert Draper Copy Share Image
You must want to enough. Enough to take all the rejections, enough to pay the price of disappointment and discouragement while you… — Phyllis A. Whitney Copy Share Image
I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying. — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
I couldn't tell you the ratio, but probably for every job you see me do, there would be 20 rejections. — Noel Clarke Copy Share Image
I quickly learned that if I kept at it and plowed right through the rejections I would eventually get somebody to buy… — Charles R. Schwab Copy Share Image
Many days you will want to give up because of rejections and failures. Passion to be an artist will help you prevail… — Jack White Copy Share Image
I've discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Your success as a writer will probably not depend on how well you write so much as in how you handle rejections. — Gilbert Morris Copy Share Image
It's not easy. I got lots of rejections when I first started out. If you want to write, you have to believe… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Don't over edit. Don't second-guess yourself, or your ideas. Just write. Write every day, and keep at it. Don't get discouraged with… — Heather Grace Stewart Copy Share Image