#rejected

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

#dull #first #get #had #hindsight

It is such a cut throat industry where you get knocked down so much and get rejected so much. If you do not back yourself up, no one else is going to so you really need to learn to get up, shake the sand off your chest and keep going. ↗

— Alex O'Loughlin

#chest #cut #down #else #get

I would be rejected if I submitted any of my novels as romance novels. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#i #novels #rejected #romance #submitted

Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#colonial #condemned #increasingly #into #new

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. You absolutely must plow forward. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#agents #allow #being #discouraged #either

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

— Leon Uris

#best #book #cry #first #nine

I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

#decided #got #i #quicker #rejected

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#conservatism #discards #future #having #makes

I would point out that Japan's proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those from Britain and the United States. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#conference #delegates #equality #i #japan

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius. ↗

— Robert Hughes

#his #our #our time #popular #rejected