Freud Quote by John Irving

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

Freud was just a novelist.

— Peter Ackroyd

I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion.

— Italo Calvino

“Freud was the man who seeded a progeny of doctors interested in abnormal psychology. With the intellectual force of a battering ram, Freud penetrated…

— Dan Wilbur

Sigmund Freud was a half baked Viennese quack. Our literature, culture, and the films of Woody Allen would be better today if Freud had…

— Ian Shoales

Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.

— Florence King

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

“While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud’s work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the…

— Andrew Solomon

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

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

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

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

— Dennis Potter