Ifs Quote by Homer Hickam

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

It's my belief that you should never show your work to anyone in the publishing world until it shines like a diamond. Rough drafts…

— Patrick Rothfuss

In order to be successful, you have to make sure that being rejected doesn’t bother you at all.

— Bill Ackman

Whenever young writers ask me for advice, I always say you have to be able to take a lot of rejection because, unless you're…

— Mary Gaitskill

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

— Andrew Sean Greer

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…

— Jerry Spinelli

“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 the rejections.…

— Heather Grace Stewart

Most writers, including myself, had to endure a lot of rejections before finally getting published. You could wallpaper a sizeable bathroom with the rejection…

— Jonathan Weeks

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

It's not easy. I got lots of rejections when I first started out. If you want to write, you have to believe in yourself…

— Rick Riordan

If you send your work to the magazines, you may be in for a shock. You may get a rejection note. The worst kind.…

— R. O. Blechman

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…

— Lisa Alther