Famous quotes containing the words collier and/or reader:
“Oh, what’s the matter wi’ you, my lass,
An’ where’s your dashin Jimmy?
The sowdger boys have picked him up
And sent him far, far frae me.”
—Unknown. Jimmy’s Enlisted; or, The Recruited Collier (l. 1–4)
“The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)