Thursday Thought

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'Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.' - Ben Franklin 

'Fuck this, I've had enough of writing.  I don't like the book world.  I don't like most books, even.  I don't like sitting on my own in a room for hours on end.' - Alex Garland

'Fiction, imaginative work that is, is not dropped like a pebble upon the ground, as science may be; fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.' - Virginia Woolf

'And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise.  The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.' - Sylvia Plath

Thursday Thought

Sylvia Path's rejection letter for Ariel

Even the best writers have been rejected, as you can see here: 50 Iconic Writers Who Were Repeatedly Rejected.

"Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful." - Paul Sweeney

"This is for writers yet to be published who think the uphill climb will never end. Keep believing. This is also for published writers grown jaded by the process. Remember how lucky you are." - Terry Brooks

Ursula Le Guin's rejection letter for The Left Hand of Darkness

So if you've sent your manuscript out and have been rejected, if you're still waiting for replies and are worrying or if you haven't sent it out yet and are scared, you're not alone. Every writer you see has been in exactly the same place as you. Some, like Sylvia Plath, were rejected many times but that didn't stop them from trying, and it shouldn't stop you either!