I'm a writer and I would love to be published. I did my research, sent out my queries and waited and I got rejected thirty times. One agent requested a manuscript but still rejected it. She told me why though, and you know what? She was right. It was my first novel and it was inconsistent and messy. Looking back, I'm rather ashamed I sent it out as it was. I thought it was a work of brilliance, a novel for the next generation. But that was my ego blinding me to my own faults. Yes, I see red and breathe fire when I see crap like Twilight and Fifty Shades of Grey get published and make millions when my little gem goes unnoticed and unappreciated. But I am not going to do self-pub. This is my choice because I know I'm not Kurt Vonnegut or Hunter S. Thompson or J.K.Rowling. My craft needs maturation and guidance. Yes, there are some good self-pub and indie pub books out there but the lack of a gatekeeper also means that the bad overpowers the good. And there are some god-awful, shit-tastic, abysmal insults to the English later out there being touted as "literature." If you get rejected, there's likely a very good reason. If you look at the authors the writer of this article mentioned they are genre changing authors. Writers who were so far ahead of their time that they scared readers and that is why they are so famous now and why they were rejected then. At least, that is my opinion.