Famous quotes containing the words collier and/or reader:
“And he’d better gone to the gallows.”
—Unknown. Jimmy’s Enlisted; or, The Recruited Collier (l. 8)
“[The pleasures of writing] correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading, the bliss, the felicity of a phrase is shared by writer and reader: by the satisfied writer and the grateful reader, or—which is the same thing—by the artist grateful to the unknown force in his mind that has suggested a combination of images and by the artistic reader whom his combination satisfies.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)