March 5, 2021
Thought
for the Day
“Starting when I was fifteen I began to send short
stories to magazines like Esquire, and they, very promptly, sent them back two
days before they got them! I have several walls in several rooms of my house
covered with the snowstorm of rejections, but they didn’t realize what a strong
person I was; I persevered and wrote a thousand more dreadful short stories,
which were rejected in turn. Then, during the late forties, I actually began to
sell short stories and accomplished some sort of deliverance from snowstorms in
my fourth decade. But even today, my latest books of short stories contain at
least seven stories that were rejected by every magazine in the United States
and also in Sweden! So, dear Snoopy, take heart from this. The blizzard doesn’t
last forever; it just seems so.”
Ray Bradbury
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