Rejection Never Ends…Advice from Award-wining Irish Novelist Donal Ryan QUOTES FOR WRITERS
A writing life is poxed and pockmarked by rejection. It never ends. Your work will be precious to you but you can’t expect everyone else to treat it as such. People will say ‘No. No. Get out. I’m calling security’… And when finally you’re accepted, the rejection will start again, in different and even more debilitating ways. But always remember to return to the joy of composing a good sentence. Look after your sentences and everything else in your writing life will look after itself.
Donal Ryan
The Irish Times
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So, so true!
I love this quote.
I also love THIS from Jerry Lewis (1926 – 2017) –
Glad you like this quote as much as I do. His first (and quite brilliant) novel was rejected 49 times so he knows what he is talking about.
Look after your sentences! is a great slogan for writers
Thank you also for the video clip – priceless.
very hopeful –
Good for when you get knocked down because you’re going to be….