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Martial Quotes about Writing

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He writes nothing whose writings are not read.

He writes nothing whose writings are not read.

Martial
Education, Reading, Writing

Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.

Martial
Book, Writing, Easy
Martial (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Martial (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.

Martial
Friendship, Writing, Complaining
"Martial epigrams". Book by Martial, I, 110, 1897.

He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?

Martial
Book, Writing, Wish
Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.362

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