No one likes being rejected, but these famous rejection letters prove that getting turned down might actually be the best thing to ever happen to you.

U2

The band decided to pitch their first single to RSO Records, who were less than impressed. They later signed with Island Records, and the rest as they say is history.

Andy Warhol

Back in 1956, the artist decided to give one of his pieces away for free to the Museum of Modern Art. The same museum that rejected him then now features 168 of his original art pieces.

Sylvia Plath

We can't even imagine what Path's poem "Amenesiac" would be like after being revised.

Madonna

We're betting that author of this letter was kicking himself so hard after finding out that the iconic singer's debut album sold more than 10 million copies worldwide.

Kurt Vonnegut

The author apparently had this letter framed after two of his writing samples sent to The Atlantic Monthly in 1949 were turned down. The letter now hangs in the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library in Indianapolis.

Tim Burton

The director might have been praised for his children's book, "The Giant Zlig," but an editor at Walt Disney Productions apparently didn't think it would be marketable enough.

Gertrude Stein

Possibly the snarkiest rejection letter of all time, Arthur C. Fifield apparently turned down the  American writer's manuscript for "The Making of Americans" without even reading it through entirely.

Jim Lee

The current co-publisher of DC comics was told to reapply "when he had learned to draw hands."

Stieg Larsson

Written in Swedish, this letter from the Joint Committee of Colleges of Journalism in Stockholm basically told that man behind the award-winning "Millennium" trilogy that he just wasn't good enough to be a journalist. He sure showed them.