Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown.

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• Ezra Taft Benson:

  Satan would have you believe that happiness comes only as you surrender to his enticements, but one

• Glennon Doyle Melton:

  You can be shattered, and then you can put yourself back together piece by piece. But what can happ

• Henry Rollins:

  When a young non-white male is stopped and searched at the whim of a police officer, his idea of pe

• Donald Trump:

  I grew up in New York City, a town with different races, religions, and peoples. It breeds toleranc

• Dolly Parton:

  Writing's just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.

• Benjamin Franklin:

  An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.

• Benjamin Franklin:

  It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fin

• Richard M. Nixon:

  If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?

• Marilyn Monroe:

  Sometimes, wearing a scarf and a polo coat and no makeup and with a certain attitude of walking, I

• George Bernard Shaw:

  I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.