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Quotes About Pseudonym

If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.
~ Dean Koontz
pseudonymous.
~ Daniel Silva
Ulick Norman Owen—Una Nancy Owen—each time, that is to say, U. N. Owen. Or by a slight stretch of fancy, UNKNOWN!
~ Agatha Christie
I've written 26 books and novellas as Molly O'Keefe. I moved through three different Harlequin lines and into single-title romance with Bantam writing under that name. Fun fact: It's not my name, and it's not even one I picked.
~ Molly O'Keefe
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
~ Anatole France
Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases, which he does not choose to acknowledge openly with his own sign manual.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In January 2012, Google Plus started to roll out support for nicknames and pseudonyms, but those registering with a name other than their real-life one must be able to prove that they have been using that alternative name elsewhere, either on the Web or in real life.
~ Rebecca MacKinnon
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
~ Anatole France
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work.
~ Anatole France
Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He does not want to sign His name.
~ Anatole France
The pseudonym for God when He did not want to sign.
~ Anatole France
seem to be the only person to have used the name Ben Christopher on a book. Strange, innit? Strange Embrace
~ Lawrence Block
Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.
~ Anatole France
I'm Harry Bushman.
~ Jennifer Skully
I soon abandoned the question of who Kurban Said or Essad Bey was for the more problematic one - who was Lev Nussimbaum?
~ Tom Reiss
If people knew that Burzum was just the band of some teenager, that would sort of ruin the magic, and for that reason, I felt that I needed to be anonymous. So I used a pseudonym, Count Grishnackh, and on the debut album, I used a photo of me that didn't look like me at all to make Burzum itself seem more out-of-this world and to confuse people.
~ Varg Vikernes
I use a pseudonym, because my real name is very difficult to pronounce, to remember, and to spell. And many people who have been talking about me on television have yet to pronounce it correctly.
~ Jeff Gannon
Robert Galbraith
~ bowdlerised
Her new boss seemed to be a person of many names.
~ Robert Galbraith
Robert Galbraith
~ at her face.
What's his name?" "Jimmy Rat." "For real?" "That's what he goes by." "Where would I find Mr. Rat?
~ Lee Child
An ordinary woman Took my unique place Used my real name Left me a pseudonym
~ Anna Akhmatova
The decision to use a pen name was nothing more than a desire to compartmentalise my life. However, I had not thought about an appropriate pseudonym, and since there's an abundance of anagrams in the novel, the idea struck me: why not use an anagram of my name? Hence, Shawn Haigins.
~ Ashwin Sanghi
Robin Hobb is the author of the Farseer Trilogy, the Liveship Traders Trilogy, the Tawny Man Trilogy, the Soldier Son Trilogy, the Rain Wilds Chronicles, and the Fitz and the Fool Trilogy. She has also written as Megan Lindholm.
~ Robin Hobb