Distress Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it.

— Gene Simmons

I'm not someone who feels that unless I am anxious or depressed, there will be no creative drive. My greatest desire in the world…

— Mark Duplass

I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to…

— Sting

I've lived a life which has been pretty much full up with ambition, ideas, stimulus, creativity, some negativity which I try and avoid.

— Robert Plant

Generally, I don't want to do things. I feel lazy and unmotivated. It's only when an idea grabs hold of me and I can't…

— Paul Auster

At any one particular time, there is something in my life that is suffering as a result of my many responsibilities; most of the…

— Ory Okolloh

I seem to enjoy making my life miserable by taking on too many projects and always wishing I could put more time into all…

— Colin Marston

I also find doing the mundane, everyday things in life has a calming, creative influence on me. Some of my best ideas come when…

— Gail Tsukiyama

I'm trying to dismantle a stereotype that in order to live any kind of creative life, you have to be in torment and suffering.…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The problem of life is to change worry into thinking and anxiety into creative action.

— Harold Bridgwood Walker

Life is about daring to carry out your ideas. And for me, it always comes back to the wilderness, nature, mountains.

— Reinhold Messner

I try to make everything creative because it's stimulating. There is this great Stanley Kubrick quote somewhere about how life is sort of bad…

— Tavi Gevinson