“To ward off a feeling of failure, she joked that she could wallpaper her bathroom with rejection slips, which she chose not to see as messages to stop, but rather as tickets to the game.” – Anita Shreve

http://www.litrejections.com/best-sellers-initially-rejected/

Never forget about 50 Shades of Grey. Getting published is enormously about luck. If you can write, you can get published. You just have to keep knocking at doors, over and over and over, until it happens.