Rejected

Rejection of Joachim's Sacrifice, painted 1304-1306 by Giotto

Read these when you need a little encouragement―responses sent from publishers to various writers/agents:

"...the girl doesn't, it seems to me, have a special perception or feeling which would lift that book above curiosity level."

'Anne Frank's Diary'

"The idea of men adrift on a raft does have a certain appeal, but for the most part this is a long, solemn, tedious Pacific voyage."

Thor Heyerdahl's 'Kon Tiki expedition'

"It's impossible to sell animal stories in the USA."

George Orwell's 'Animal Farm' 1945

"The grand defect of the work, I think, as a work of art, is the low-mindedness and vulgarity of the actors. There is hardly a 'lady' or 'gentleman' among them."

Anthony Trollope's 'Barchester Towers' 1857

"You have buried your novel beneath a heap of details which are well done but utterly superfluous."

Gustave Flaubert's 'Madame Bovary' 1856

"I'm sorry, Mr Kipling, but you just don't know how to use the English language."

Rudyard Kipling

Feeling better, aspiring writers?

© Dennis Crompton 1995
(first published www.denniscrompton.wordpress.com 2013)