Sentence examples for literary rejection from inspiring English sources
Heinlein experienced his first literary rejection when his short story about a case of espionage discovered at the Naval Academy failed to win a shipboard writing contest.
Nelson's rejection of literary snobbery is refreshing, and it enables her to make some interesting points about why she reads, but the book is solely about her own experiences, and thus fails to produce the connection with others that she seeks.
The first he never achieved (despite some of the most glowing rejections in literary history).
The vast majority of rejections my literary agent received were surprisingly positive, but were knock-backs all the same.
I applaud Jackie Hardrick who knew that "Imani" needed telling despite the rejection of 10 literary agents.
"The central fact of Canadian history," observed the 20th-century literary critic Northrop Frye, is "the rejection of the American Revolution".
In controlled, often doleful prose, Roth captures the youthful pursuit of identity as it intersects with the rejection of "neat literary truths" and the realization that a family is nothing more than a collection of frayed, flawed individuals.
One night she started with a recipe for black bean sauce, another with the first line of a rejection letter from a literary journal, another with a to-do list.
I haven't been able to really work through this, but it seems to me that's not unrelated to our cultural mild rejection of art, especially literary art".
I haven't been able to really work through this, but it seems to me that's not unrelated to our cultural mild rejection of art, especially literary art".
