#rejections

I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn't instantaneous, at all. I was getting a lot of rejections. I just got very lucky and it happened quickly for me. I don't feel like I'm a prodigy or something. ↗

— Anthony Doerr

#feel #getting #gone #got #happened

I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying. ↗

— Anita Diament

#explaining #fiction #got #historical #historical fiction

But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#any #everyone #extremist #get #i

The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough to find a good agent. ↗

— Danielle Steel

#agent #enough #finally #find #fortunate

I have friends that are much better actors than I am that had to quit the business because they couldn't survive the auditions or the rejections, or people just didn't realize how good they were. ↗

— Robert Englund

#auditions #because #better #business #friends

I think all great innovations are built on rejections. ↗

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

#great #i #i think #innovations #rejections

Everybody said, "Follow your heart". I did, it got broken ↗

— Agatha Christie

#failure #failures #goals #heartbreak #rejection

These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected. ↗

— Edmund White

#being #felt #hurt #i #life