A great writer is the friend and benefactor of his readers.

You are the friend of all because of your merits. A good person embellished with good thoughts becomes the friend or benefactor of all.…

— Rig Veda

“I have a comedy writer friend, Sandy, whose husband left her for another woman the moment his restaurant (which Sandy had invested in and…

— Mindy Kaling

We love to start from a real place, whether it's us or our friends or working on a story from a writer's friend.

— Abbi Jacobson

I tend to write, either myself, or I sometimes write with a co-writer, my friend that lives up the road. It's usually a relatively…

— Colin Hay

To choose a writer for a friend is like palling around with your cardiologist, who might be musing as you talk to him that…

— Anatole Broyard

I don't think any writer is a friend to the reader if he or she is not funny.

— Amitava Kumar

A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.

— François De La Rochefoucauld

There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.

— John Donne

Uber is hardly the first company to exploit the financial vulnerability of teachers - and the desperation of public schools more broadly - to…

— Alissa Quart

A benefactor is a representative of God.

— Benjamin Whichcote

I account the office of benefactor, or almoner, to which God appoints all those whom he has favored with wealth, one of the most…

— J. G. Holland

He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into the short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the…

— Samuel Johnson

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives…

— Og Mandino

I happen to have the benefit of having a son-in-law who was the former Mr. France and a trainer. I like being his benefactor…

— Suzanne Somers

“Haven't I been worth five years' excellent gossip to you? Are you not all waiting agog to see me seize my sister-in-law by the…

— Dorothy Dunnett