Found originally at this blog. Rejection and writing go hand-in-hand, but sometimes it feels that those pesky publishers simply don’t know what they are talking about. Here’s eleven reasons writers might just be right after all… Madeline L’Engle’s book, A Wrinkle in Time, was turned down 29 times before she found a publisher. C.S. Lewis received over 800 rejections before he sold a single piece of writing. Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind was rejected by 25 publishers. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was rejected 121 times. Johathan Livingston Seagull was rejected 40 times. Louis L’Amour was rejected over 200 times before he sold any of his writing.…