Analysts Quote by Adam Phillips

Paranoia is just a kind of awareness, and awareness is just another form of love.

— Charles Manson

Paranoia imposes its own vision on the external world; it differs from other kinds of visionary experience in that the paranoid wants others to…

— Louis Simpson

Indeed, mysteries lead readers through an endless variety of subjects and settings; yet sometimes devotees of detection seek to be transported though another dimension…

— Sarah Weinman

Each time I think I've made a connection with someone... once they find out what I can do, whether it's hours or days later,…

— Mark Waid

I have always been fascinated by paranoid people imagining conspiracies. I am fascinated by this in a critical way.

— Umberto Eco

“You know you're writing a good thriller when you make yourself paranoid.”

— Shirley B. Garrett

“Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.” ― Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly”

— Philip K. Dick

Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.

— Mary Ann Shaffer

Scientific studies about relationships fascinate me, and I devour them hungrily, especially when they give big, fancy-sounding names to everyday experiences.

— Jenna McCarthy

A great thriller, to me, is more about creating a sense of unease: a queasiness that comes with knowing something is not quite right.

— Gillian Flynn

I'm always looking for a sign - not in a spooky, supernatural way, but in a 'neurotic writer' kind of way.

— Erik Larson

“Lovers tend to be philosophical, achievers are practical.”

— Amit Kalantri