Decision Quote by Stanley Unwin

This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don't consider it rejected. Consider that you've addressed…

— Barbara Kingsolver

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

A manuscript not submitted is a book not published.

— Dan Poynter

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

You won't find a publisher until you have written the book and you won't find the time till you sit down, stay down, and…

— Carol Drinkwater

I don't think anyone will believe me, but I've never been pressured by a publisher to churn out a book.

— Michael Connelly

It is important to send your work to as many publishers as possible. For every one publisher who may show interest in your work,…

— Ravi Subramanian

It's my belief that you should never show your work to anyone in the publishing world until it shines like a diamond. Rough drafts…

— Patrick Rothfuss

If you want to send a manuscript, send it to an agent. And send a letter first, asking permission. Launch it into the real…

— Steven Pressfield

I have one very bad experience with a U.K. publisher, who gave it out to be understood that she wanted to publish my book…

— Neel Mukherjee

I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who…

— David Eddings

I didn't want the headache of having a publisher reviewing everything I wrote in advance.

— Mark Millar