I've had a lot of books rejected in my time. My first novel, which didn't get published, was, with hindsight, crashingly dull.
“A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure; the greater part of the men being six feet high.”
“There was a sense of all the things that go on on the street, particularly in New York, that you are just completely unaware of, that that conversation could be happening at any time. I loved the instability of the camera. It's just an unstable world.”