Books Quote by Gregory Wolfe

Authors always take rejection badly. They equate it with infanticide.

— P. D. James

“Being angry, resentful, or saddened by rejection can suck the sweetness out of acceptance.”

— Charles F. Glassman

“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 is nature's way of telling you to write a better book.

— James D. Macdonald

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

— Octavia Butler

“Books change us. They excite us, they compel us to question, to fight, to believe in the possibility of the improbable; they are the…

— T.S. Tate

“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

“If they want to come for you, they will come, and it doesn't matter what you read or what you failed to read. The…

— Madeleine Thien

“Avoidants are not exactly open books and tend to repress rather than express their emotions.”

— Amir Levine

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

“There was something calming in the reticence of all those books, their willingness to wait years, decades even, for the right reader to come…

— Nicholas Carr

“A book gets rejected because it's not ready to be published.”

— Gina Nahai