You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out.
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
You must write to the people's expertise.
Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose?
Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.
No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.