In many ways it was much much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people publicists and so forth implicitly.
The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly if not explicitly systematic theory in this sense.
Is it faith to understand nothing and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?
Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.