Pseudonyms Quotes

• Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

  Anatole France

  God, Literature, Want

  58 Copy quote

• The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm

  Sylvia Plath

  Honesty, Men, He Man

  13 Copy quote

• Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.

  Anatole France

  God, Science, Names

  16 Copy quote

• 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

  Freedom, Writing, Men

  11 Copy quote

• 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

  Writing, Different, Might

  9 Copy quote

• 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

  Real, Talking, Names

  "Transcript of CNN Interview with the Reporter Formerly Known as Gannon", www.editorandpublisher.com. February 19, 2005.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Children, Book, Glasses

  Michio Kaku (1999). “Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century”, p.340, Oxford Paperbacks

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  People, Identity, Investment

  "My bright idea: Jaron Lanier". Interview with Aleks Krotoski, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Ed McBain

  Writing, Editors, Careers

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  Writing, Names, Common Sense

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  People, Able, Updates

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. August 26, 2009.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nom de Plume uses the device of the pseudonym to unite the likes of Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, Fernando Pessoa, and Patricia Highsmith into a cohesive yet highly idiosyncratic literary history. Each page affords sparkling facts and valuable insights onto the manufacturing of books and reputations, the keeping and revealing of secrets, the vagaries of private life and public opinion, and the eternally mysterious, often tormented interface between life and literature.

  Elif Batuman

  Book, Secret, Public Opinion

  9 Copy quote

• 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

  Thinking, Names, Use

  4 Copy quote

• I more seriously considered publishing it under a pseudonym than I considered publishing it as fiction. I think the decision to write it as nonfiction happened at the very outset of the process, because the overwhelming impetus for writing this book was to understand what the experience meant, and to override my own reductions and rationalizations, whatever story I had that was not true. It didn't sit well with me and I needed to answer that. That's sort of the reason I write everything.

  Melissa Febos

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  God, Government, Want

  8 Copy quote

• 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

  Doe, Chance, Cases

  4 Copy quote

• As for complicating the black metal aesthetic, I don't care about that since it was never a goal of mine to lay out any particular preconceived aesthetic, let alone one of traditional black metal where pseudonyms are adopted.

  Colin Marston

  Goal, Black, Care

  Source: pitchfork.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• '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

  Book, Night, Careers

  "Born Storyteller: An Interview With Michael Koryta, Author of So Cold the River". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Inspirational, Thinking, Land

  9 Copy quote

• 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

  Labyrinth, Retreat, Scandal

  William Ernest Henley (1921). “Views and reviews”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I chose to publish the first 'Shopaholic' book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be judged on its own merits.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Book, Firsts, Merit

  53 Copy quote

• To answer oppression with appropriate resistance requires knowledge of two kinds: in the first place, self-knowledge by the victim, which means awareness that oppression exists, an awareness that the victim has fallen from a great height of glory or promise into the present depths; secondly, the victim must know who the enemy is. He must know his oppressor's real name, not an alias, a pseudonym, or a nom de plume!

  Chinua Achebe

  Real, Mean, Names

  Chinua Achebe (2011). “The Education of a British-Protected Child”, p.67, Penguin UK

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• My name is not Mara Dyer, but my lawyer told me I had to choose something. A pseudonym. A nom de plume, for all of us studying for the SATs. I know that having a fake name is strange, but trust me-it's the most normal thing about my life right now. Even telling you this much probably isn't smart. But without my big mouth, no one would know that a seventeen-year-old who likes Death Cab for Cutie was responsible for the murders. No one would know that somewhere out there is a B student with a body count. And it's important that you know, so you're not next.

  Michelle Hodkin

  Smart, Years, Names

  Michelle Hodkin (2012). “The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling.

  Chris Marker

  Language, Markers

  13 Copy quote

• 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

  Writing, Would Be, Wanted

  "Nicholson Baker: 'Writing this book was the most fun I ever had'" by Peter Conrad, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source