Ariel Martin

“Immature artists imitate.
Mature artists steal.”
― Lionel Trilling

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“If dogs talked, one of them would be president by now. Everybody likes dogs.”
― Dean Koontz