It's a Bird... Quotes

“But ignoring something doesn't make it less real, y'know. Something isn't fiction just because you choose not to acknowledge it.”
― Steven T. Seagle, It's a Bird...

“A man without human contact is a man without aid, without hope, without life.”
― Steven T. Seagle, It's a Bird...

“I once got a fortune cookie at the China Star Café in Muncie, Indiana that said," Surround yourself with people who are what you are not. "That cookie was more useful than all five months of Philosophy 101 I sat through.”
― Steven T. Seagle, It's a Bird...

“One thing writers have in common is the need to procrastinate. People don't really understand this, but it's not avoiding work, it is work. Going to lunch, cleaning the house, walking around eavesdropping, reading... all of it informs the process of pulling a story out of nowhere. After you've burned through the two or three tales that are born into your brain—you have to siphon the rest out of your environment. So, when I need something for my stories—I open my eyes and ears to the world around me... because I never know where the next idea, or scene, or line of dialogue is going to come from.”
― Steven T. Seagle, It's a Bird...

“Writing characters is like raising kids, only more work—because you have to do everything for them.”
― Steven T. Seagle, It's a Bird...

“But in his darkest hour, when it seemed he'd finally met his match, Superman returned. Some felt there was no truth or justice to a story where a man could come back from the dead. There'd only been one other bestseller in history to use that plot successfully. But the willful use of the impossible is exactly what comic book stories are for... to remind us that when the real world is too much to take, there's always a place we can go... where man, or Superman, can escape anything set against him.”
― Steven T. Seagle, It's a Bird...