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“The novel was rejected by thirty publishers”

— Alan Griffin

“Beautiful publishers say beautiful things and then We're sorry, but no... and then more beautiful things. It's a shit sandwich with branston pickle and…

— Kate Inglis

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

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…

— Lisa Alther

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

What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was that a thing may…

— Thomas Wolfe

Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to…

— Zig Ziglar

My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench.

— Wilbur Smith

I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who…

— David Eddings

I kept writing short stories and sending out my manuscript, and it kept coming back like a bad penny. It was rejected all over…

— Debra Dean

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

When you're young, everything seems like a romance. At 96, I can still feel romantic about publishing young unknown writers.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti