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Originally Posted by Jennifer Reeser
I love it. Here's mine, from John Mella at LIGHT Quarterly, my first submission there ever:
"I am afraid you are MUCH too serious a writer for us."
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That is wonderful, also Christine's example.
I don't have many great quotes on rejection, as I think my stuff either sends editors into a kind of knotted-brow frenzy of 'this is NOT poetry' or they love it.
I do have a great rejection quote from my art school interview (at the tender age of 18), during having my portfolio looked at, where three tutors discussed, and came to the conclusion that 'she' (spoken over my head):
'clearly didn't have the conceptual intelligence to make it as a fine artist, nor the drawing skills for graphics, so it was going to have to be crafts then, wasn't it'
Sarah-Jane
(I didn't end up doing crafts)