‘I know my first novel was rejected by over twenty imprints before finding a home. That novel won prizes in the end, but I still remember those adjectives used by agents more easily than I can remember the praise of the judges.’
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‘The worst thing about that first rejection wasn’t that I’d been turned down by Oxford, it was that it made me reject my own impulse to write. ‘
‘Very early on I set rules for dealing with rejection; sulk for a day, eat chocolate. The next day, see what can be improved. ‘
‘Apparently it’s all because of our evolutionary past. As social animals who wouldn’t survive alone.’