Ursula LeGuin's website features a rejection letter for one of her first books.
The book is so endlessly complicated by details of reference and information, the interim legends become so much of a nuisance despite their relevance, that the very action of the story seems to be to become hopelessly bogged down and the book, eventually, unreadable.
... Much like your sentence, in fact.
It's really cool when Brilliant And Famous Writers like Ursula LeGuin and Neil Gaiman talk about their rejection letters. It makes it easier to shrug off rejection letters: Oh, they don't know any better. They'll be sorry later!
Jim says:
'Tain't just editors & publishers who pan people that later become famous. I remember when Larry Niven was contributing to a fanzine and some of my college friends described him as "a snot-nosed high school kid who couldn't write his way out of a paper bag."
Ai Ling says:
Remember the IBM executive who said that there would be a world market for PCs of maybe 8? Wonder if he still has his job.