My first novel took almost six years to sell and was rejected 37 times in the interim, and then finally sold for the smallest amount of money my literary agent had ever negotiated for a work of fiction.

Daniel Handler

Agent Almost Amount Ever Fiction Finally First Had Literary Money Novel Rejected Sell Six Smallest Sold Then Times Took Work Years

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