Books Quote by Louise Brown

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

— Octavia Butler

“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

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

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

“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

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

Every successful author I know faced crushing rejection early on, and they got back up and kept going.

— Karin Slaughter

I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that…

— Louise Brown

The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in…

— Ray Bradbury

As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection.

— Carol Leifer

This is a stamina game, so don't despair if you run down a blind alley and have to start over, or if you get…

— Tim Maleeny

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

— James D. Macdonald