"There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself."

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"There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself."

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"He is poor indeed that can promise nothing."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"Thou hast seen nothing yet."

Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish Novelist

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"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand."

Simone Weil, French Philosopher

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"I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise."

Alice Walker, American Author

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"All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

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"Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

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"Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work."

Work

"Today, there are more opportunities for writers in terms of access to larger success, but it's more difficult to publish a literary novel in the lower ranges. In other words, you almost have to hit a home run. You can hit a triple, maybe, but nobody's interested in a single."

Home

"I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little bit vain, it seems to me."

Life

"You do it a day at a time. You write as well as you can, you put it in the mail, you leave it under submission, you never leave it at home."

Home

"I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box."

Writing

"Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game."

Writing

"When you find the right people, you never let go. The people who count are the ones who are your friends in lean times. You have all the friends you want when things are going well."

Friendship

"Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself."

Writing

"The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us."

Society

"That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds."

Age