Your reasoning is excellent, it's only your basic assumptions that are wrong.
Success for some people, depends on becoming well-known, for others it depends on never being found out.
What's most interesting about some books is the question: How did this crap ever get published?
No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas.
Is it you and I who are crazy, or is it everybody else?
My main object in life is to see what will happen next.