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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 God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name. -- Anatole France
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
I chose to publish the first 'Shopaholic' book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be judged on its own merits. -- Sophie Kinsella
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
When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do. -- Jaron Lanier
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
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
The same old caveman feeling-greed, envy, violence, and mutual hate, which along the way assumed respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, racial struggle, mass struggle, labor-union struggle-are tearing our world to pieces. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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
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
I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die.. and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres. -- Felix Dennis
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
The life of Dumas is not only a monument of endeavour and success, it is a sort of labyrinth as well. It abounds in pseudonyms and disguises, in sudden and unexpected appearances and retreats as unexpected and sudden, in scandals and in rumours, in mysteries and traps and ambuscades of every kind. -- William Ernest Henley
I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me. -- Evan Hunter
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
I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would express, in a combination of noble and striking sounds, our dream of artistic achievement, a pen name grand enough to compensate for my own feeling of insecurity and helplessness at the idea of everything my mother expected from me. -- Romain Gary
Wormholes were first introduced to the public over a century ago in a book written by an Oxford mathematician. Perhaps realizing that adults might frown on the idea of multiply connected spaces, he wrote the book under a pseudonym and wrote it for children. His name was Charles Dodgson, his pseudonym was Lewis Carroll, and the book was Through The Looking Glass. -- Michio Kaku
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. And then with MySpace, I just don't read messages. I delete everything, and I just post updates every now and then. -- Patton Oswalt
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
There is a difference between using a made-up name and using real people as pseudonyms. People are not costumes you can wear. They are flesh and blood. -- Siri Hustvedt
Using pseudonyms was such a part of the early feminist movement. We didn't want to have this star system. We wanted attention on the ideas, not the persona of the writer. -- bell hooks

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