This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don't consider it rejected. Consider that you've addressed it 'to the editor who can appreciate my work' and it has simply come back stamped 'Not at this address'. Just keep looking for the right address.
Barbara KingsolverYou never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
Barbara KingsolverFiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin.
Barbara KingsolverThe average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
Barbara KingsolverEvery time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
Barbara KingsolverLiterature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you temporarily forget you have one of your own. That is why you read it, and might even sit up in bed till early dawn, throwing your whole tomorrow out of whack, simply to find out what happens to some people who, you know perfectly well, are made up.
Barbara Kingsolver