Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work. – James Lee Burke
Artistic rejection is like taking cod liver oil; they say it’s good for you, you know they’re right, but it can be still tough to swallow. – Ian Semple
Almost more than talent you need tenacity, and an infinite capacity for rejection, if you are to succeed. – Larry Kramer
You get used to the rejection and you don’t take it personally. – Daniel Craig
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. – T S Eliot
Not being loved back hurts, but realize that they can’t make themselves love you. Love can’t be controlled.
I know that when a door closes, it can feel like all doors are closing. A rejection letter can feel like everyone will reject us. But a closed door leads to clarity. It’s really an arrow. Because we cannot go through that door, we will go somewhere else. That somewhere else is your true life. – Tama J. Kieves
The effects of rejection can either kill your muse or change your life. – Jane Champagne
When we love and desire what we should be rejecting, we are in conflict with our true selves.
A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success. – Bo Bennett
I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat. – Sylvester Stallone
We will not allow rejection to beat us down. It will only strengthen our resolve. To be successful there is no other way. – Earl G. Graves
I don’t fear love, I fear the rejection you might bring along with it.
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
I don’t really have disappointments because I build myself up for rejection. – Nicholas Hoult
Love means you keep on loving no matter how many times you have experienced the pain of rejection.
I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long. – Louise Brown
All great innovations are built on rejections. – Louis Ferdinand Celine
Everyone at some point in life have faced rejection and failure, it is part of the process to self-realisation. – Lailah Gifty Akita
Being in love with the God that will never reject you is the security needed to endure any other rejection that comes your way.
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