Rejection Slips Quotes

16 quotes by 13 authors

I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I… — James Lee Burke
I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush… — Vikas Swarup
I've got a folder full of rejection slips that I keep. Know why? Because those same editors are now calling my agent hoping I'll write… — MaryJanice Davidson
I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long. — Louise Brown
I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to… — Lisa Alther
To ward off a feeling of failure, she joked that she could wallpaper her bathroom with rejection slips, which she chose not to see as… — Anita Shreve
I had immediate success in the sense that I sold something right off the bat. I thought it was going to be a piece of… — Fred Saberhagen
It had been fourteen years and I hadn't had anything published. I had 250 rejection slips. I got my first novel published and it was… — Lisa Alther
Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It's a shame publishers send rejection slips. Writers should get something more substantial than a slip that amounts to a pile of confetti. Publishers should… — Jerry Spinelli
By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips. — Laurell K. Hamilton
Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted, sent them out all over,… — Jerry Spinelli
You do it a day at a time. You just put your rejection slips in a shoebox and tell yourself one day you're going to… — James Lee Burke
I love my rejection slips. They show me I try. — Sylvia Plath
By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I… — Stephen King
Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil-but there is no way around… — Isaac Asimov

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13 authors contributed a total of 16 Rejection Slips Quotes as follows: