1) Serious inspiration for any artist or entrepreneur.

2) I read this book while honeymooning (thanks to those who recommended it!) and couldn’t put it down. I’m beyond excited that the movie comes out next week.

By rejection number 45, I was truly neurotic. It was all I could think about—revising the book, making it better, getting an agent, getting it published. I insisted on rewriting the last chapter an hour before I was due at the hospital to give birth to my daughter. I would not go to the hospital until I’d typed The End. I was still poring over my research in my hospital room when the nurse looked at me like I wasn’t human and said in a New Jersey accent, “Put the book down, you nut job—you’re crowning.”

(via Kathryn Stockett’s ‘The Help’ Turned Down 60 Times Before Becoming a Best Seller | Health, Beauty, Fashion, Love, Careers and more - MORE Magazine)

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