Accept Quote by Min Jin Lee

The writing life doesn't move in a straight line. I've had successes and rejections all along the way, at every stage of my career,…

— Cheryl Strayed

When you relentlessly work, you gradually get accepted.

— Amit Shah

People don't teach you how to handle the workload that comes from a little bit of success, and it's something I'd never had to…

— Felicia Day

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

It takes a long, long time to write what I do write.

— Joseph O'Neill

You have to read a lot so you know what good writing looks like and you get inspired. You have to write a lot…

— Rick Riordan

I am quite a slow writer. I can only work under pressure; I wait until the last minute.

— James Hunter

I never thought that it would take me so long to do something. I thought everything was temporary and sometimes the best thing you…

— Steve Toltz

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

— Louise Brown

“The benefit of writing short stories is that they allow you to get rejected sooner. If you write a novel, it could take years…

— Joseph Harold Bunting

Your success as a writer will probably not depend on how well you write so much as in how you handle rejections.

— Gilbert Morris

Many writers-in-waiting spend a lot of time avoiding the work at hand. The most common way to avoid writing is by procrastination. This is…

— Walter Mosley