Monday, January 31, 2011

Rudyard Kipling

[Encouragement for writers facing rejection.]

"I'm sorry Mr. Kipling, but you just don't know how to use the English language."

~ Editor of the San Francisco Examiner, in response to a submission by Rudyard Kipling, 1889

Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936) Well-known English writer who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1907. Author of The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would be King, Gunga Din and If.