10 Rejection Letters Famous People Got When They Were Starting Out
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Getting rejected is the worst, but if these famous people can move past it and find success, so can you.
U2
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Within a year of being rejected by RSO Records, U2 was signed by Island Records and had released a single.
Tim Burton
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Tim Burton sent his children's book to Disney productions when he was just 17 and received a rejection letter, along with positive feedback.
Stieg Larrson
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Larsson didn't live long enough to experience his own success. This Swedish letter told Larsson he wasn't good enough to be a journalist. The amazing success of his "Millenium" series (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, etc.) says otherwise.
Jim Lee
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Jim Lee, a famous comic book writer is a writer, illustrator and designer for DC Comics today.
Madonna
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This letter contains no date, but must have been sent before 1982, when Madonna signed to Sire Records and sold 10 million copies of her self-titled album.
Sylvia Plath
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Plath was sort of rejected by The New Yorker at one point.
Gertrude Stein
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Stein's work was rejected for being too dense in 1912.
Hunter S. Thompson
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This letter is actually a rejection from Hunter S. Thompson to William McKeen.
Kurt Vonnegut
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A framed copy of this rejection letter from The Atlantic hangs in the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library.
Andy Warhol
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MoMA once rejected Warhol, but today own 168 pieces of his work.
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