You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.
“Growing up, others girls wanted to dance and help their mums with the cooking. I liked to play soccer with the boys. Or I'd be off on my own, tilting mirrors towards the sun in order to burn armies of ants. That was my idea of fun.”
“After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.”