Attention Quote by bell hooks

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

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

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 began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when…

— Anonymous

“What makes an author write under a different name ? Well, some may actually be criminals on the run, looking to make a bit…

— Rotimi Ogunjobi

I think most writers, in a sense, have this desire to disappear, to be absolutely anonymous, to be removed in some way: that comes…

— Sam Shepard

Female authors were still using male names when I was young, or they were neatly shoehorned into womens books except for those few that…

— Sherwood Smith

The decision to use a pen name was nothing more than a desire to compartmentalise my life. However, I had not thought about an…

— Ashwin Sanghi

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…

— Nicola Cornick

...it is a sneaking piece of cowardice for authors to put feigned names to their works, as if, like bastards of their brain, they…

— Anonymous

One of the things you want as a successful writer is the anonymity.

— Irvine Welsh

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…

— Siri Hustvedt