literature
n. A perpetual processes of proving one's talent to people who lack such.
Cynical Quotations
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody has read.
— Mark Twain
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
— Andre Maurois
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
— Jules Renard