Sentence examples for rejected book from inspiring English sources

For example, Mr. Irwin said he rejected book proposals on the long-running television shows "Friends" and "E.R".

Despite the rejected book proposals, the discouraging auditions and the lost elections, many a man or woman still looks in the mirror and sees a star.

In 1993, Padura's second Conde novel, "Vientos de Cuaresma," won an UNEAC prize that guaranteed publication, and Prieto began pushing to have the first, rejected book printed as well.

After the taxidermist reads some excerpts from his play aloud, Henry says that he realizes that the amateur playwright has done exactly what he, Henry, "had argued should be done in his rejected book": he "was representing the Holocaust differently".

Best of all, the Frankfurt Book Fair, where it all began — the rejected book, the ill-advised affair, the failed marriage — is a long river into a dark Kurtzian heart, at the center of which sits a sun-tanned agent, waving an empty wineglass, saying, "I had much higher hopes for you".

He then authorised a statement permitting use of the rejected Book locally if the parochial church council gave approval.

Some, such as Henry Miller and Vladimir Nabokov, were content to have their risky books published abroad, usually in Paris, where the Olympia Press and its offshoots rejected books without a high degree of sexual content.

During the last century, publishers sometimes rejected books that used Egyptian, and even novels about everyday life, like Naguib Mahfouz's "Cairo Trilogy," featured fusha dialogue that no Egyptian would ever speak.

Other orthodox writers meanwhile, rejected books now considered canonical.

O'Connor was already slipping verse under her father's napkin at the table and rejecting books that didn't satisfy her interest in the heretical.

(Incidentally, every publisher but Random House rejected the book on the grounds that—seriously you can't sell a book that targets a demographic without money).