Like Quote by Andrew Shaffer

Every successful author I know faced crushing rejection early on, and they got back up and kept going.

— Karin Slaughter

Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage.

— Octavia Butler

Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted, sent them out all…

— Jerry Spinelli

“Note to aspiring writers: This is actually not that many rejections in the grand scheme of things. I know published writers whose rejection count…

— Jennifer Weiner

“Rejection is a challenge. Persistence is patience. Reward is a lifetime in the making. Despite what happens, only death will stop this author from…

— Veronica Purcell

“Rejection has value. It teaches us when our work or our skillset is not good enough and must be made better. This is a…

— Chuck Wendig

Like pretty much every short story writer, I submitted to every market under the sun and hoped for the best. The rejection letters I've…

— Ken Liu

As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers.…

— Augusten Burroughs

To be a writer is to embrace rejection as a way of life.

— Dana Stabenow

I've discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in…

— Saul Bellow

Engrave this in your brain: EVERY WRITER GETS REJECTED. You will be no different.

— John Scalzi

I heard you had to get 200 rejections before you got published.

— Andrew Sean Greer