By essayist, novelist Dani Shapiro.  Editor and founder of New American Review, Ted Solotaroff, said only a few writers had flourished. "Some, he speculated, had ended up teaching, publishing occasionally in small journals. But most had just... given up. “It doesn’t appear to be a matter of talent itself,” he wrote. “Some of the most natural writers, the ones who seemed to shake their prose or poetry out of their sleeves, are among the disappeared. As far as I can tell, the decisive factor is what I call endurability: that is, the ability to deal effectively with uncertainty, rejection, and disappointment, from within as well as from without.”