Bricks Quote by Jerry Spinelli

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

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

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

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

I sent a lot of publishing ideas to my publisher, about 30 of them. Each time except 3, i got a "rejection letter". This…

— James Dashner

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

— Octavia Butler

Every published writer, myself included, was at one time unpublished. All writers know what rejection feels like.

— Andrew Shaffer

Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted, sent them out all…

— Jerry Spinelli

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

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…

— MaryJanice Davidson

“Note to aspiring writers: This is actually not that many rejections in the grand scheme of things. I know published writers whose rejection count…

— Jennifer Weiner

I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.

— Louise Brown