#rejection slips

I had immediate success in the sense that I sold something right off the bat. I thought it was going to be a piece of cake and it really wasn't. I have drawers full of - or I did have - drawers full of rejection slips. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#cake #did #drawers #full #going

I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box. ↗

— James Lee Burke

#autograph #because #box #day #going

By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#first #i #publications #rejection #rejection slips

I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long. ↗

— Louise Brown

#could #entertaining #fear #i #long