Because Quote by Italo Calvino

Freud was just a novelist.

— Peter Ackroyd

Between the ages of 24 and 27, I read Freud's complete works, everything that had been translated into English. It was very stimulating intellectually.…

— Nathaniel Branden

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

I admire Freud a great deal as a person and thinker. Despite everything, I find his work very, very rich, but I think that…

— Simone de Beauvoir

As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.

— Dennis Potter

“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

I never read Freud. I've never been attracted to anything he has said, and I think he's started a lot of nonsense with psychiatry…

— Bob Dylan

I've read everything printed in English that Freud has written. It helped me a great deal.

— Gene Wilder

Freud was a hero. He descended to the "Underworld" and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head…

— R. D. Laing

Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth…

— Ross Macdonald

No honest writer today can possibly avoid being influenced by Freud through his pioneering work into the Unconscious and by the influence of those…

— Dylan Thomas

“The greatest psychopathologist has been Freud. Freud was a hero. He descended to the “Underworld” and met there stark terrors. He carried with him…

— R.D. Laing