8 Famous Writers Who Faced Rejection
When you look at your bookshelves and read all those illustrious names and titles, it’s easy to believe that publication was guaranteed for such writers. The truth is, a writer who hasn’t experienced rejection is a rare if non-existent creature. Almost all writers who eventually make their way to publication have had to fight for it, and there are some shining examples of brilliant authors who have experienced multiple turn-downs from publishers and agents.
20 Greatest Short Story Writers of All Time
American short story writer Lorrie Moore once said that if novels are films, short stories are photographs, fleeting glimpses into other worlds and lives. If this is the case, a collection is an album; bound in leather and filled with distinct but connected images, slipped onto a shelf and occasionally brought down to be perused. Here, then, are twenty of the greatest short story writers and their snapshots of the ordinary and the fantastic, the wonderful and the disturbing.