Produce anything really good, and an intelligent editor will jump at it.

Don't flatter yourself that any article of yours is rejected because you are unknown to fame.
Nothing pleases an editor more than to get anything worth having from a new hand.

There is always a dearth of really fine articles for a first-rate journal; for, of a hundred pieces received, ninety are at or below the sea-level; some have water enough, but no head; some head enough, but no water; only two or three are from full reservoirs, high up that hill which is so hard to climb.
You may have genius.

The contrary is of course probable, but it is not demonstrated.

If you have, the world wants you more than you want it.