From the same comments trail of Joe Konrath's blog comes this comment by e.c. morgan, who once worked as an editor at an automotive magazine:
Persistence is important in this business. I remember one writer who sent me query after query. I'd reject one and he'd immediately send another. All were well written, very professionally done — he was just barely missing the mark. Finally, after about a dozen rejections, I sent an assignment for a different story back with the rejection slip (his query was similar to a story we already had in the works). Seven years later, when I look at that magazine at the store, I still see his name in there.
Never, never, never give up (to paraphrase old Sir Winston). 🙂
Lynn;
Funny, God drives a Jag. Only in Hawaii.
The “Never, never, never, quit.” is my favorite Churchill quote. The second is:
“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without loss of enthusiasm.”
Winston Churchill
Nice blog.
Hi, R.J. Thanks for stopping by. Yep, God lives in the Aloha State. I don’t blame Him, really. I wasn’t surprised the day I saw Him, merely disappointed that I had a car full of groceries and couldn’t go talk to Him. I was rather relieved to see He wasn’t riding around in one of those stretch Hummer limos we have around here though. 🙂
My other favorite Churchill quote is this: “Continuous effort–not strength or intelligence–is the key to unlocking our potential.”
My favorite persistence quote:
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “press on” has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Calvin Coolidge
Oh yes, I like that too! Here’s another one I like:
Failure is the path of least persistence. 🙂
That one, so far as I know, is anonymous.