There’s a writing forum that I visit often and would recommend to anyone looking for a helpful community of writers and agents who are there to sympathize, support and motivate each other to do the best job they can.
Absolute Write has every genre involved, sub-forums set aside for critiques and beta readers, and even a section for people wanting to investigate particular agents or agencies and make sure they aren’t getting scammed (important! If you don’t know why, be sure to ask me).
Anyways, while browsing through there recently, I came across this thread that deals with quotes about rejections and thought it’d be fun to share.
Here are two of my favorites for starters:
“I discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, “To hell with you.”
-Saul Bellow
“Practice, practice, practice until you eventually get numb on rejections.”
– Brian Klemmer
Got any quotes that have stuck in your head for a while? Ones that encourage or prod you in the rear to keep going even when you’ve passed the hundredth rejection mark? Share it here (or on the forum and then link to it here so we can all check it out). Happy Monday, folks.
I see that smile.