Comments on: Advice from authors who made it http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/02/advice-from-authors-who-made-it/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 By: DGLM http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/02/advice-from-authors-who-made-it/comment-page-1/#comment-16241 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:37:40 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/02/advice-from-authors-who-made-it/#comment-16241 Thanks, these are great. Keep up the positive thoughts!

]]> By: Mary Witzl http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/02/advice-from-authors-who-made-it/comment-page-1/#comment-16214 Sat, 20 Feb 2010 08:35:18 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/02/advice-from-authors-who-made-it/#comment-16214 Widespread interests and endurance — I've got those; I may need to work on the others.

Samuel Becket's 'Fail better' always works for me. Failing isn't so awful if you can see that the failure is a BETTER failure than the one(s) before it.

]]> By: Delilah S. Dawson http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/02/advice-from-authors-who-made-it/comment-page-1/#comment-16210 Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:24:22 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/02/advice-from-authors-who-made-it/#comment-16210 I commissioned a pendant from a jewelry artisan that has "nothing in the 'verse can stop me" stamped around a silver horseshoe. I kiss it every time I get a rejection.

I'm determined to be wearing it when I finally get that call/email, too.

]]> By: ChristaCarol http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/02/advice-from-authors-who-made-it/comment-page-1/#comment-16202 Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:45:08 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/02/advice-from-authors-who-made-it/#comment-16202 Optimistic persistence. :)

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