Job Quote by Timothy Morton

I'm the absolute worst at getting jobs, ever. I had 100 rejections before I landed one. I kept all the letters in a folder…

— Timothy Morton

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

I took all of my rejection letters - there must have been thousands of them in a huge box - and I went out…

— Janet Evanovich

I've got a folder full of rejection slips that I keep. Know why? Because those same editors are now calling my agent hoping I'll…

— MaryJanice Davidson

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

Like pretty much every short story writer, I submitted to every market under the sun and hoped for the best. The rejection letters I've…

— Ken Liu

I've thought of publishing a book of my hate mail, but I don't own the rights to the letters.

— Alan Dershowitz

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

There was a day when I liked writing letters -- it has gone. Unfortunately the passion for getting them remains.

— Virginia Woolf

I had immediate success in the sense that I sold something right off the bat. I thought it was going to be a piece…

— Fred Saberhagen

I guess I'm what you call a slush-piler. I just sent my manuscripts to the slush pile of publishers and hoped for the best.…

— Markus Zusak

“Upon finding the letter, I had one of those out of body experiences that come only after poring over archival material for nine hours…

— Jay Kirk