Thursday, July 26, 2007

Rejection?

Rejection is part of life.
Some of the famous rejection stories are (from here) :
  1. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – 14 rejections
  2. Jonathan Livingston Seagull – 18 rejections
  3. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell – 38 rejections
  4. From rejection slip for George Orwell's Animal Farm: “It is impossible to sell animal stories in the U.S.A.”
  5. From rejection slip for article sent to the San Francisco Examiner to Rudyard Kipling: “I'm sorry, Mr. Kipling, but you just don't know how to use the English language."
  6. From rejection slip for The Diary of Anne Frank: “The girl doesn't, it seems to me, have a special perception or feeling which would lift that book above the curiosity level.”

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