Anton Chekhov: 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 twic

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.

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