Vostell Happening Quotes & Sayings

If everything is happy go-lucky all the time, you don't know when you're experiencing joy and feeling life at its finest moments. You have to suffer a little. — Corey Taylor

Writing for the sake of writing, writing that draws its credibility from its very existence, is a foreign idea to most Americans. As a culture, we want cash on the barrel head. We want writing to earn dollars and sense so that it makes sense to us. We have a conviction - which is naive and misplaced - that being published has to do with being "good" while not being published has to do with being "amateur." ...
"Did you write today?"
"Yes."
"Then you're a writer today."
It would be lovely if being a writer were a permanent state that we could attain to. It's not, or if it is, the permanence comes posthumously.
A page at a time, a day at a time, is the way we must live our writing lives. Credibility lies in the act of writing. That is where the dignity is. That is where the final "credit" must come from. — Julia Cameron

She had stripped away her own illusions for him, and that was as seductive a thing as any woman could do. — Deanna Raybourn

We need ... to say to people that this is a temporary residential status, and we expect that, once there is peace in Syria again, once IS has been defeated in Iraq, that you go back to your home country with the knowledge that you have gained. — Angela Merkel

Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at. — Nancy Werlin

We will join our palms together, fingers intertwined in each other, and look at the stars in the night sky! — Avijeet Das

understanding the process of finding a solution is far more valuable than the solution itself. — Lea Verou

The one pair of eyes into which you can never gaze is your own. — John Ortberg

I'm going crazy, Louis thought wonderingly. Wheeeeee! — Stephen King

When I see Messi play, in my opinion, he should win the Ballon d'Or every year. He is an unbelievable player. — Paolo Maldini

Oz thinks I'm beautiful, she whispered to the stars. — James Patterson

One of life's terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they're doing. — Anthony Bourdain

Poetry is not a lost art. Poetry is better than ever. Of course you've got the usual gang of idiots (as the Mad magazine staff writers used to call themselves) hiding in the thickets, folks who have gotten pretension and genius all confused, but there are also many brilliant practitioners of the art out there. Check the literary magazines at your local bookstore, if you don't believe me. For every six crappy poems you read, you'll actually find one or two good ones. And that, believe me, is a very acceptable ratio of trash to treasure. The — Stephen King

Happy wife, happy life. — Paul Orfalea