Advice Quote by Mary Gaitskill

I tell younger writers that indeed it is devastating to be rejected. You feel like the bottom dropped out of your world.

— Alex Haley

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

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

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

— Octavia Butler

“Remember that with every rejection comes success because it's not in the results, but in the process of learning to write that makes you…

— P.B. Azeltine

“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

Don't get discouraged from all the rejection.

— Joey King

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

It is necessary to put yourself out for rejection, and accept that you will be rejected.

— Robert Genn

I’d recommend learning to accept rejection. Become friends with rejection. Be nice to rejection, because it’s a huge part of being a writer, no…

— A. J. Jacobs

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

— Carol Leifer

“Rejection comes easy, because you learn quickly that the worst thing that can happen is to hear the word "no”

— John Grisham