Fourteen Quote by Stephen King

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

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

— Jonah Lehrer

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

[Rejection] made me quit writing once. For six months. I started up again when my then seven-year-old son asked me to start writing again…

— Kirby Larson

By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“My art school rejection letter arrived as a cold manila fist that closed around my fragile hopes [...] The fear was practically edible. Nothing…

— Grant Morrison

I threw love at the wall and it bounced back and slapped me in the face.

— Anonymous

I've been trying to write a book since before I was old enough to vote, and I've collected many rejection slips from publishers and…

— J. R. Moehringer

The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.

— Ralph Hodgson

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and…

— John Steinbeck

Ever since my childhood, I was haunted by the search for perfection. An imperfectly cut paper literally made me ill. I would guillotine it.

— Hans Arp

In elementary and middle school, I threw kids against the wall. I rubbed their heads in the dirt at recess. I bit them. I…

— Russell Wilson