Careers Quote by Anonymous

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…

— Poppy Z. Brite

Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me.

— Evan Hunter

The experience of writing under a pseudonym was tremendously liberating; I could write what I wanted.

— Stephen McCauley

The idea of a pseudonym had been flitting around my brain for a long time, along with its cognate, disappearance. In the 1980s, I…

— Michael Redhill

I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think of THEM,…

— Susie Bright

One of the things I liked about writing for a magazine was a kind of anonymity. When you do books, it's different than magazine…

— Hilton Als

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…

— bell hooks

I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me.

— Anthony Burgess

I sometimes talk to people who think I got published because I was an editor, or because I was an agent, and I have…

— Garth Nix

I wrote for magazines. I wrote adventure stuff, I wrote for the 'National Enquirer,' I wrote advertising copy for cemeteries.

— Walter Dean Myers

Pseudonyms make it a little easier to shift perspective and approach the subject matter with the appropriate persona. That also may be looking into…

— John Wilson

I hadn't ever worked with an 'editor' until I was 26 - although that could be partly chalked up to the MFA vs. NYC…

— Jenny Zhang