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Quotes About Pseudonym

What's really fun is to write under different names.
~ Tom Verlaine
There was also the time that competitors were asked to submit a paragraph of a Graham Greene parody: Greene himself entered under a pseudonym and placed third.
~ Christopher Hitchens
I began writing when I was still in the British Foreign Service, and it was then understood that even if you wrote about butterfly collecting, you used another name.
~ John le Carre
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.
~ Theophile Gautier
Grand Central really didn't want me doing anything under my own name but the 'Kitty' novels.
~ Carrie Vaughn
The author concealed behind the pseudonym of Geber is probably an Italian Franciscan friar and lecturer named Paul of Taranto.
~ Lawrence M. Principe
I haven't sworn off Facebook. I'm on Facebook. There's a fan page on Facebook that I will update, but I'm on there myself under a pseudonym, because there were a lot of people able to private-message me on Facebook, and it was getting really weird.
~ Patton Oswalt
I'm going to open a new Facebook account named 'Anonymous' so all the cool quotes will be attributed to me!
~ Clinton Thomas
To this day, no one knows who Pauline Réage is.
~ Pauline Réage
ast year's Best-Sex-Scene-in-a-film winner Vince Voyeur's real name turns out to be John LaForme. Rhetorical Q.: How, if one's real name was John LaForme, could that person possibly feel the need for a nom de guerre?
~ David Foster Wallace
Just letting readers know that I have written some works under Linda Chaffee Taylor (Chaffee was my maiden name, and that is where you will find my main profile) and Linda K. Taylor (middle initial). I can't figure out how to get Goodreads to combine, but if you want to find all my books, go to the author profile for Linda Chaffee Taylor. And thanks for reading and supporting.
~ Unknown
Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.
~ Lisa Gardner
I think maybe I might have to do what some other authors do, which is do a variation on my name, just to send readers the message that, 'Yep, this is me, but this is a different part of me. So brace yourself.'
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
I used to have a pseudonym for Twitter, and I'm trying to get my check to verify me.
~ Steve Mnuchin
When I began writing in the mid-1960s, I thought it was not important for readers to know whether I was male or female. Also, I was a great admirer of E.B. White, so I may have thought that it would bring me luck to submit my first manuscript as 'E.L.' But if I were starting out today, I would use my first name.
~ E. L. Konigsburg
Just as Clara Gazul is the female pseudonym of a distinguished male writer, George Sand the masculine pseudonym of a woman of genius, so Camille Maupin was the mask behind which was long hidden a charming young woman, very well-born, a Breton, named Felicite des Touches, the person who was now causing such lively anxiety to the Baronne du Guenic and the excellent rector of Guerande.
~ Honore de Balzac
off. I always went by "Tray" or "Crazy Tray.
~ Unknown
My name on the title-page seems a pseudonym for someone else, someone talented but near the border of sanity...
~ W.H. Auden
If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.
~ Dean Koontz
I have used the name Jambulingam while editing films such as 'Super Troopers' and 'Puddle Cruiser.' I like the look and sound of it.
~ Jay Chandrasekhar
They signed in as Mr. P. Villa and Mrs. S. Hayek.
~ Luis Alberto Urrea
I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don't have ordinarily.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign
~ Theophile Gautier
I wrote a book under a pen name, Bic.
~ Unknown