Agents Quote by MaryJanice Davidson

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

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

I have SO many books I didn't sell. Some my agent rejected outright, others made it all the way to my editor to be…

— Sarah Dessen

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

I received rejection letters for ten years (one on a napkin, written in crayon.) I had all my rejection notices stored in a box.…

— Janet Evanovich

Over a four-month period, I sat down and wrote every day. And then there was a novel, and all of a sudden, there were…

— Melissa Marr

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

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

— Louise Brown

My first novel took almost six years to sell and was rejected 37 times in the interim, and then finally sold for the smallest…

— Daniel Handler

Rejection process is not fun. It's the red pen on the page, the discarded sketch, sometimes is the only way forward.

— Jonah Lehrer

“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

My agent came to me with a deal from another publisher and I signed a deal and got the advance with no idea of…

— Mark McNairy