Thread by @PulpLibrarian

For some aspiring writers a rejection letter from a publisher is crushing; for others it just spurs them on. So if you've been knocked down recently don't worry, you're in good company - as I'll show you in this thread of famous rejections...

“This author is beyond psychiatric help. Do not publish.” 

#RejectionLetterQuote for Crash, a novel by J.G. Ballard.

“An endless nightmare. I think the verdict would be ‘Oh don’t read that horrid book.'”

#RejectionLetterQuote for War Of The Worlds, a novel by H.G. Wells.

“I don’t dig this one at all.”

#RejectionLetterQuote for On The Road, a novel by Jack Kerouac.

“Too radical of a departure from traditional juvenile literature.” 

#RejectionLetterQuote for The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz, a novel by L. Frank Baum.

“We feel that we don’t know the central character well enough.”

#RejectionLetterQuote for The Catcher In The Rye, a novel by J.D. Salinger.

“Hopelessly bogged down and unreadable.”

#RejectionLetterQuote for The Left Hand Of Darkness, a novel by Ursula K LeGuin.

“An absurd and uninteresting fantasy which was rubbish and dull.”

#RejectionLetterQuote for Lord Of The Flies, a novel by William Golding.

“Apparently the author intends it to be funny - possibly even satire - but it is really not funny on any intellectual level.”

#RejectionLetterQuote for Catch-22, a novel by Joseph Heller.

"Your pigs are far more intelligent than the other animals, and therefore the best qualified to run the farm.”

#RejectionLetterQuote for Animal Farm, a novel by George Orwell.

"I rack my brains why a chap should need thirty pages to describe how he turns over in bed before going to sleep.”

#RejectionLetterQuote for In Search Of Lost Time, a novel by Marcel Proust.

"First, we must ask, does it have to be a whale?"

#RejectionLetterQuote for Moby Dick, a novel by Herman Melville.

Whatever you do as a writer, stick to it. Success involves knocking on many doors before you decide which one you're gonna kick down...