Books Quote by P. D. James Download Open image “Authors always take rejection badly. They equate it with infanticide.” — P. D. James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Infanticide Rejection
“Rejection has value. It teaches us when our work or our skillset is not good enough and must be made better. This is a… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
Rejection is nature's way of telling you to write a better book. — James D. Macdonald Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“A rejected infant will often die, even if its basic needs are met. A rejected child will spend his whole life trying to please… — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
Every successful author I know faced crushing rejection early on, and they got back up and kept going. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“I’ve learned to not let rejection bother me. How can it bother me, when all the people who’ve rejected me have been murdered, and… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“For a writer, every rejection is a small cut … until he bleeds to death.” — Howard Giordano Copy Share Image
“Writers are a superior breed. No one else can face so much rejection and still thrive.” — Susie Smith Copy Share Image
What was so terrible about grief was not grief itself, but that one got over it. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic? — P. D. James Copy Share Image
If you are proposing to commit a sin it is as well to commit it with intelligence. Otherwise you are insulting God as well… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
It's possible to fight intolerance, stupidity and fanaticism when they come separately. When you get all three together it's probably wiser to get out,… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
Death ... obliterates family resemblance as it does personality: there is no affinity between the living and the dead. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
If all power corrupts, then a doctor, who literally holds life and death in his hands, must be at particular risk. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
read widely, not in order to copy someone else's style, but to learn to appreciate and recognize good writing and to see how the… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
In youth we take egregious risks because death has no reality for us. Youth goes caparisoned in immortality. It is only in middle age… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
It is always easy to question the judgement of others in matters of which we may be imperfectly informed. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
