‘Rejection is what happens as a creative; you just have to find ways to survive it. Of course, you can learn from it — rewrite, submit elsewhere, nothing’s wasted etc. What I’m talking about is surviving the feelings. ‘
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‘If we’d planned a girls’ trip to London or a night out, my sister would ask me who I’d killed off this time, and I would let her know which of my characters had taken the fall.’
‘For every play performed, script broadcast or book published, there comes another, very public, rejection: the bad review.’
‘The rage was building… stoked by subterranean rejections of all sorts. Going back to childhood, to the womb, to before the womb, to legions of unplacated ghosts.’