You are right to demand that an author take conscious stock of what he is doing, but you are confusing two concepts: answering the questions and formulating them correctly. Only the latter is required of the author.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "You are right to demand that an author take conscious stock of what he is doing, but you are confusing two concepts: answering the questions and formulating them correctly. Only the latter is required of the author." in the context of "Anton Chekhov, in a letter to a friend, quoted in The Art of Mystery by Maud Casey." to mean that wisdom is timeless.