Rejection Slips Quotes
16 quotes by 13 authors
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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
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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
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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
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I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.
— Louise Brown
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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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
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By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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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
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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
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
— Sylvia Plath
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Rejection Slips Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 16 Rejection Slips Quotes as follows: