Quotes About Rejection Letters

#1. Don't get down on yourself when you get rejection letters.

Vantile Whitfield

#2. I like to joke that I probably hold the world record for rejection letters. Yes, the truth is that I was fed up of being rejected repeatedly, and self-publication was an act of defiance at traditional publishing. But life works in strange ways.

Ashwin Sanghi

#3. For over a year I continued to submit mss, and have them rejected - the last few with rejection letters indicated the story was pretty good, but I was American.

Nora Roberts

#4. I'm talking to anyone who has been dumped - have not gotten the job you really wanted or have received those horrible rejection letters from grad school. You know, the disappointment of losing, or not getting something you badly want. When that happens, show what you are made of.

Jill Abramson

#5. A good play is a good play. If you want to chalk up your rejection letters to the fact that you're a woman, that's your choice. But often you get a rejection letter because your play isn't ready. Or the time isn't ready for your play. And that has nothing to do with gender.

Jane Anderson

#6. The three secrets of getting published:

1. Never give up!
2. Never give up!
3. Never give up!

It doesn't matter how many rejection letters you get. Remember, you only need one acceptance letter.

Marshall S. Thomas

#7. He could imagine the college rejection letters now.
'After learning that one kiss and a sleepless night led you to fail a test, we have decided you are no longer a fit for our institution.

Brigid Kemmerer

#8. There are three certainties in a writer's life: death, taxes, and rejection letters.

T.L. Rese

#9. It's still incredibly hard. Not just honing my craft but kicking down doors, getting my work published. Early on, I could have wallpapered my house with all the rejection letters sent my way. I put thousands of hours and pages into four novels that never saw the light of day.

Benjamin Percy

#10. You'll be amazed how much you have in common with Edith Wharton (who struggled to feel worthy of success), Louisa May Alcott (who badly needed money), Madaleine L'Engle (who could have papered an entire house with her rejection letters) and other writers...

Nava Atlas

#11. I could wallpaper a room with rejection letters.

Robin Moore

#12. I received rejection letters for ten years (one on a napkin, written in crayon.) I had all my rejection notices stored in a box. When the box was finally full I took it to the curb and set it on fire. The next day I went out and got a temp job.

Janet Evanovich

#13. I took all of my rejection letters - there must have been thousands of them in a huge box - and I went out on the curb and burned them all, crying.

Janet Evanovich

#14. You know you're getting somewhere as a writer when the rejection letters mean as much as spam in your inbox.

Jason E. Hodges

#15. I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.

Anita Diament

#16. I sent in tons of submissions and proposals, and I collected my share of form rejection letters. Eventually, I found myself working at a comic book shop, where I met my future collaborator Brian Hurtt.

Cullen Bunn

#17. At certain moments of intense personal grief, capturing images was for me the only way to comprehend later what was happening.

Pedro Meyer

#18. The film industry needs to find a way to bring audiences to movie theaters. It's more of a technical trick than a revolution.

Michel Ocelot

#19. Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil-but there is no way around them.

Isaac Asimov

#20. The word 'NO' is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you.

A.K. Kuykendall

#21. I could not put your new novel down. At 950 pages and weighing in at over ten lbs. I couldn't even pick the goddamned thing up!

Fred Barnett

#22. Rejection puts you out of your comfort zone which is usually when you're at your best.

Stewart Stafford

#23. The big news is the midterm elections. Last night Republicans picked up a dozen seats in the House to give them their biggest majority since World War II. Or as they put it, 'Time to party like it's 1939!'

Jimmy Fallon

#24. The crowds were just crying out, "Crucify him, crucify him" with unified rage and intent. And in the backdrop of this rejection of the Son of God, the New Testament Church was beginning to form and write letters to encourage each other in the faith.

Greg Gordon

#25. I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.

Carl Sandburg

#26. Personally, sometimes I'll lament the journey of an Asian-American actor, walking into audition rooms in 1999.

Kelvin Yu

#27. The more Nos I open myself up to hearing, the closer I am getting to my super successful life.

Malti Bhojwani

#28. Love the show 'Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives.' Being from Louisiana and a big outdoorsman, I'm a big fan of 'Duck Dynasty' as well.

Wes Brown