Book Quote by James D. Macdonald Download Open image “Rejection is nature's way of telling you to write a better book.” — James D. Macdonald ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Heartbreak Nature Rejection Way Writing
Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Keep reading and writing, learn how to revise, and push through rejections. My second book, Monsoon Summer, was rejected over 20 times and finally… — Mitali Perkins Copy Share Image
REJECTIONS Has A Useful Purpose That Is, For Us To Learn Either To Change Ourselves For The Better Or To Justify Who We Are. — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
I've had a lot of books rejected in my time. My first novel, which didn't get published, was, with hindsight, crashingly dull. — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success — Bo Bennett Copy Share Image
Authors in general don’t have a lot of money, and lawsuits are expensive. — James D. Macdonald Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't mean you know anything about marketing. Or layout. Or editing. Or publicity. Or selling your books for foreign markets.Everyone can point to a few examples of people that have done very well for themselves self-publishing. But… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image