Books Quote by Zig Ziglar

I'd just like to point out that almost all of these stories in this collection were rejected by some publication at one time or…

— Arthur Bradford

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

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

— Karin Slaughter

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

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

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

Finally, I found a wonderful agent who wanted to work with me, and she sent it to one billion publishers and received one billion…

— Liza Campbell

My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench.

— Wilbur Smith

I heard you had to get 200 rejections before you got published.

— Andrew Sean Greer

“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

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

Every published writer, myself included, was at one time unpublished. All writers know what rejection feels like.

— Andrew Shaffer