10 Painful Rejection Letters To Famous People Proving You Should NEVER Give Up Your Dreams

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http://mentalfloss.com/article/55416/10-rejection-letters-sent-famous-people

5. Kurt Vonnegut
lettersofnote.com
Three writing samples sent to The Atlantic Monthly in 1949 were deemed commendable, but "not compelling enough for final acceptance." Rather than giving up, Kurt framed the letter, which now hangs in his Memorial Library in Indianapolis.His most famous work, Slaughterhouse-Five , is rumored to have developed out of one of the samples.

6. Sylvia Plath
openculture.com
Although this wasn't a complete rejection, the New Yorker requested the entire first half of "Amnesiac" to be cut. It's hard to believe that the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet would have her work torn apart, but it shows how even the greatest writers start from humble beginnings.

7. Gertrude Stein
mentalfloss.com
In possibly the snarkiest letter of all time, Arthur C. Fifield turned down Gertrude Stein's manuscript for "The Making of Americans" without reading all of it, then mocked her. The celebrated novelist and poet later mentored the likes of Ernest Hemingway.

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1. I love this. Thank you.

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2. You're welcome

I just thought it might inspire some folks here in the Writing forum.