Author-life Quote by Veronica Purcell

“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

“Note to aspiring writers: This is actually not that many rejections in the grand scheme of things. I know published writers whose rejection count…

— Jennifer Weiner

Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage.

— Octavia Butler

“For a writer, every rejection is a small cut … until he bleeds to death.”

— Howard Giordano

“Rejection is a writer's best friend. If you are not failing regularly, you are living so far below your potential that you're failing anyway.”

— Gregg Levoy

“Remember that with every rejection comes success because it's not in the results, but in the process of learning to write that makes you…

— P.B. Azeltine

“Writers are a superior breed. No one else can face so much rejection and still thrive.”

— Susie Smith

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

Engrave this in your brain: EVERY WRITER GETS REJECTED. You will be no different.

— John Scalzi

Rejection is nature's way of telling you to write a better book.

— James D. Macdonald

This is a stamina game, so don't despair if you run down a blind alley and have to start over, or if you get…

— Tim Maleeny

Every successful author I know faced crushing rejection early on, and they got back up and kept going.

— Karin Slaughter