Quote for Monday

First remember George Seither’s rule: “We don’t reject writers; we reject pieces of paper with typing on them.” Then scream a little…Don’t stay mad and decide you are the victim of incompetence or stupidity. If you do, you’ll learn nothing and you’ll never become a writer…Don’t get huffy because you have already made sales and therefore feel that no editor dare reject you. That’s just not so. He can reject you and he need not even offer any reason…Don’t make the opposite mistake and decide the story is worthless. Editors differ and so do tastes and so do magazines’ needs. Try the story somewhere else…What doesn’t fit one magazine might easily fit another.

- Isaac Asimov