Boris Strugatsky. Comments to the past (№ 211269)

You have to be optimistic. As bad as any you have written your story, she will find many thousands of readers who will consider this story nearly a masterpiece.
At the same time need to be a skeptic. No matter how good you wrote your story, be sure to find readers, thousands of readers who will sincerely believe that you have got absolute junk.
And finally, you have to be a realist. As good, as bad as any you have written your story, will always find millions of people who remain completely indifferent to it, they will simply not care - I wrote to you or not even started at all.