Stephen King’s dream of becoming a writer started as an adolescent, and by the time he was 14 he had received so many rejection letters from short-story publishers that the nail he used to hang them on the wall would no longer support their weight.
“I replaced the nail with a spike and kept on writing,” he said in his memoir On Writing.
King didn’t sell a short story until he turned 19; “The Glass Floor” earned him $35. And his best-selling book Carrie received 30 rejections before it sold to Doubleday Publishing for a $2,500 advance.
Today, King’s books have sold more than 350 million copies, and it’s because he didn’t take rejection personally.
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