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'Mira Grant' is actually my pseudonym. And 'Seanan' is pronounced 'SHAWN-in.' -- Seanan McGuire
Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign. -- Theophile Gautier
My pseudonym is 'George R. R. Martin.' That guy's just an actor. -- Gwendoline Christie
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign. -- Anatole France
I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling. -- Chris Marker
'The Turner Diaries' is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald. -- Gore Vidal
I chose to publish the first 'Shopaholic' book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be judged on its own merits. -- Sophie Kinsella
While I was writing I assumed it would be published under a pseudonym, and that liberated me: what I wrote was exactly what I wanted to read. -- Nicholson Baker
In 1962 I wrote for 'Jazz News,' using the pseudonym Manfred Manne, which I picked because of a jazz drummer with that name. I later dropped the 'e.' -- Manfred Mann
In my early performing days, I played gigs under the pseudonym Whitey McFearsun. I painted my face blue, wore crimson lipstick, and strung on some tight silver latex pants. -- Shawn Amos
And I can't think of a reason I'd ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn't want to publish something that I didn't like enough to put my name on it. -- Poppy Z. Brite
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign. -- Anatole France
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
It becomes dangerous for somebody who doesn't want their boss to know their sexual preference to use online networks to push for laws supporting gay marriage or same-sex partner rights if they can't do so with a pseudonym. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
I wanted a pseudonym partly because I'm quite shy and private. I know that sounds ludicrous, but if I should be lucky enough to make a hit, I wanted to be able to shrug off the mantel of Nick Harkaway when I got home. -- Nick Harkaway
When I started writing, I didn't have the common sense to use a pseudonym, so I write under my own name. If I did have a pen name, though, it would be something very historical - something that sounds very sort of Regency... Sophia something. -- Nicola Cornick
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
The idea of a pseudonym had been flitting around my brain for a long time, along with its cognate, disappearance. In the 1980s, I published some poems under a pen name in a literary magazine to see what it would feel like. It was fun. It was even a little thrilling. -- Michael Redhill
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
One of the advantages of having gone to Penn State was having had a scholar for a mentor - Philip Young. Also, a professional writer named Philip Klass taught there. He was a science fiction writer whose pseudonym was William Tenn. As a professional writer, he brought wisdom to teaching because he'd done it for a living. -- David Morrell
I'd much rather see a world where, when you make some quirky comment on a blog or news story or you upload a video clip, instead of just a moment of fame for your pseudonym, you'll get 50 bucks. The first time that happens, you'll realise that you're a full-class citizen. You have the potential to make money from the system. -- Jaron Lanier
Envy the Night' was my first stand alone, the first book I'd written in the third person and I loved the feel of that, and it was different but it was also the same. 'So Cold the River,' I knew, was going to be really different, and that's why I thought about doing it as a novella under a pseudonym, because I didn't want to damage my career. -- Michael Koryta
Mira Grant is actually my pseudonym. And Seanan is pronounced SHAWN-in. -- Mira Grant
The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm -- Sylvia Plath
Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign -- Theophile Gautier
If my name were Mark Twain, I'd write under the pseudonym "Samuel Clemens." -- Jarod Kintz
Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name. -- Anatole France
I'm writing my next book under a pseudonym. It will be Mark Twain's best young adult romance." -- Benson Bruno
The Turner Diaries' is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald. -- Gore Vidal
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
It's very hard to be an experimental woman writer. If I had been writing under a pseudonym, just initials, I might have a different reputation - but, then I couldn't be myself either. -- Joyce Carol Oates

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