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Monday 13th February

Bring Back Rejection Letters

Posted at 7:00PM Sunday 13 Dec 2009

A common feature of the biographies of many leading cultural figures is the list of rejections they received before they became successful. So The Beatles were famously turned down by Decca Records in 1962 with the line "guitar groups are on their way out". Twelve publishers rejected JK Rowling before Bloomsbury picked up the Harry Potter books. Whole books have been published collecting rejection letters, allowing us to feel smug at the hapless readers who turned down Borges, Stephen King or John Le Carré.

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