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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 didn't know he was a novelist either.

John Irving
Umpires, Surfing, Novelists
"Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews (Eighth Series)". Book edited by George Plimpton, 1988.
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 didn't know he was a novelist either.