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“Most good writers are good psychologists.”

— Rachel Ballon

But we should ask the question: Why should a writer be more than a writer? Why should a writer be a guru? Why are…

— Erica Jong

If I weren't a writer, I'd be a psychiatrist.

— Lisa Unger

Most writers do similar things in their minds. It's how the mind works, basically.

— Raymond Pettibon

Writing is the product of a deeply disturbed psyche, and by no means therapeutic.

— Edna O'Brien

I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.

— Al Alvarez

I really, truly believe that writing comes out of the body; of course, the mind is working as well, but it's a double thing…

— Paul Auster

I feel like if writers used writing as therapy we'd have a ton of happy writers.

— Jennifer Gilmore

If you want to understand human beings, there are plenty of people to go to besides psychologists… Most of these people are incapable of…

— Anthony Standen

“Writers are nothing more than borderline schizophrenics who are able to control the voices.”

— Jennifer Salaiz

All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or…

— Christopher Koch

“Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn’t know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they…

— John Irving