Quote I Love: Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations

Quote

An author’s response to a reader who said they didn’t like his story line about two female lovers.

“If he thinks the fear of alienating a few closed-minded readers is going to stop me from writing stories that feature and promote characters of diverse backgrounds—including LGBTQ characters, persons of color, and people who belong to ideological or philosophical minorities—he must be out of his mind. I’m a fucking Star Trek writer. Hasn’t he ever heard of IDIC—’Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations’?”

David Mack, a Star Trek writer in Defense of Diversity

Quote I Love: Magic in Writing

“If you don’t think there is magic in writing, you probably won’t write anything magical.”

– Terry Brooks