Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don’t know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hard and tortuous to write a bad one.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don’t know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hard and tortuous to write a bad one." in the context of "Letter to A.S. Suvorin (May 4, 1889)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.