Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.
The starkest rejection letter might be followed by a million-dollar advance. Don't let rejection start to look the same as failure.
You're going to have more rejection than acceptance.
I've had way more rejections than I've had jobs.
If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago.
A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.
Rejection just motivates me to keep trying and to try to do better.
If you give up at the first rejection or the first bad review, you will never make it in publishing.
I have been rejected 120 times, probably because I didn't write the right book.
In order to handle rejection, we have to reflect on the past, analyze/study it. Next, just like a computer, we have to reboot. Next, get it out of our system by rejecting every aspect of it.