Quotes on Well Wishes

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

How often I have tried to tell writing students that the first thing a writer must do is love the reader and wish the reader well. The writer must trust the reader to be at least as intelligent as he is. Only in such well wishing and trust, only when the writer feels he is writing a letter to a good friend, only then will the magic happen.

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.