The publishing industry, unsurprisingly, is full of different people who love different things and express that love in different languages. Find the people, the editors and agents, with whom you share some language, and some sense of what makes literature worth reading.
“Usually, someone who's in a show gets me a ticket. I feel cornered. I can't walk out if I don't like it.”
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”