Gene Wolfe (1931–2019) American science fiction and fantasy writer
Fiction, "The Fifth Head of Cerberus", Orbit 10 (1972)
“For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.”
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Alex Haley (1921–1992) African American biographer, screenwriter, and novelist
As quoted in A Kwanzaa Celebration (1995) by Angela Shelf Medearis, p. 154.
This motto appears on the emblem of the Medium Endurance Cutter USCGC Alex Haley, named after the writer, as "FIND THE GOOD AND PRAISE IT". It is declared to have been his personal motto.
Variant: Find the good — and praise it.
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