Jerry Spinelli Quotes

I didn't expect any success at all. I was rejected by every publisher in the world and every agent in town.

My 20s were a blizzard of rejection slips.

Acting is a life of rejection.

My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench.

I kept sending out stories and getting rejected.

I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.

Rejection 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.

I have SO many books I didn't sell. Some my agent rejected outright, others made it all the way to my editor to be turned away. Not everything is a winner, which is tough when you've devoted eight or nine months of your life to something.

The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is still on offer in the U.K., but I'm not confident there will be any takers.

I've had a lot of books rejected in my time. My first novel, which didn't get published, was, with hindsight, crashingly dull.

Before 'Whiplash,' I'd had a string of failed scripts. I'd pour my blood, sweat and tears into them, and no one would like them.

I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.

I trained myself to not get my hopes up, because there were so many times in the room where you'd be like, 'This feels amazing, this is a hit!' And it never saw the light of day.

After you do this for a while, you get used to things not working the way you want them to. There's a job you want, and you don't get it. There's a movie you'd like to get made, and it doesn't get made. You become inured to it.

When I lost my first record deal, my wife and kids and I lost - I wouldn't say friends, but - we lost a lot people around us. They just vanished! They were nowhere to be found. I couldn't get a break, and I couldn't get people to even respond to my emails about songs, no matter how good something was.

I haven't got enough fingers to count the number of clubs who rejected me.

There are no guarantees in the music field. There's a lot of rejection, a lot of criticism and a lot of disappointment. You have to be prepared for that. And after 1973, it just wasn't happening for me.

I'd been trying to do this since I was 15, sending out the demo tapes and doing all the things that everyone told me that I should be doing. But no deal - like, never.

I assumed no one would ever listen to my music, and for quite a lot of years, I was right.

After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.

I had given up on acting because I would go for auditions every day, but nothing would happen.

I love seeing love. I had this one girl that I was really tryna go hard with, but it wasn't it.

There are times when your films don't work, your phone doesn't ring and you wonder what you have done.

It's easy to feel spurned, especially when you return to your apartment and stare at the hundreds of rejection letters tacked to your bulletin board.

I haven't gotten hundreds of jobs that I've auditioned for.