Something to remember after that 100th rejection from a publisher...
When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it - but all that had gone before.
-- Jacob Riis, Danish-born Journalist, Photographer and Social Reformer
