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.
“Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit.”
“So often actors only mix with actors, which is quite incestuous, and doesn't give them the insight into how other people work.”