10 Great Writers Discuss What It’s Like Dealing With Literary Rejection
“I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.”
“I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.”
The film stars Jason Segel as Wallace and Jesse Eisenberg as David Lipsky – the journalist who went on a roadtrip with the author and chronicled their time together.
A lot of cuteness, obviously.
“My brother has autism and growing up we just never really connected. Then one day I started reading The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy out loud and something about that book clicked with him. After that we became closer.”
This is surprisingly good.
So we’d lay there and talk about where we’d be and where’d we go. We could feel the warm rain coming in from the lake if we sat on the balcony and reached our hands out to the sky.
1. Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish.
“You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else.”
We’ve all been there. You’re at a wedding reception and someone gets up to give a toast to the newly married…
If there’s anything a great summer needs besides music it’s a great list of books to read as well.