Don’t be modest!

“Thesiphone, thow helpe me for t’endite
These woful vers, that wepen as I write!”
(Geoffrey Chaucer: Troylus and Criseyde, v. 6-7)
“The best policy for my nerves, it seems to me, would be to forget all about editors – writing whatever I write solely for my own pleasure [...] . Some time the results may find a niche [...]