Books Quote by Wilbur Smith

I've had a lot of books rejected in my time. My first novel, which didn't get published, was, with hindsight, crashingly dull.

— Helen Fielding

My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953.

— Leon Uris

Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted, sent them out all…

— Jerry Spinelli

Publishers send me a lot of first novels because my first novel was the defining novel of my career, and I guess a lot…

— Jay McInerney

It had been fourteen years and I hadn't had anything published. I had 250 rejection slips. I got my first novel published and it…

— Lisa Alther

My first novel took almost six years to sell and was rejected 37 times in the interim, and then finally sold for the smallest…

— Daniel Handler

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

“It seems important to me that beginning writers ponder this—that since 1964, I have never had a book, story or poem rejected that was…

— Joseph Hansen

I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their…

— George Bernard Shaw

I have SO many books I didn't sell. Some my agent rejected outright, others made it all the way to my editor to be…

— Sarah Dessen

I had written a book. For various reasons, the publishing industry had decided that my book was going to be 'important.' The novel had…

— Akhil Sharma

My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough…

— Ian Rankin