rejection

“Rejection puts you out of your comfort zone which is usually when you're at your best.” Stewart Stafford

“Rejections slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil – but there is no way around them.” Isaac Asimov

There's nothing like rejection for making you do an inventory of yourself. James Lee Burke

This is an important question. And I have the feeling it's not one we ask ourselves enough. I mean, I know we're all plagued by self-doubt, but that's not the same thing as actually stepping back and objectively taking a view: Is what I've written really any good? We might try to give the...