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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 use a pseudonym, because my real name is very difficult to pronounce, to remember, and to spell. And many people who have been…

— Jeff Gannon

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

— Stephen McCauley

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

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

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

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 like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.

— S. E. Hinton

We've learned quickly that the Web is far more pseudonymous than anonymous: online, our names have simply been changed to a number, an I.P.…

— Kevin Young

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

What I regret most after becoming a cartoonist is having used my real name. At first, I figured there was no way I'd sell…

— Akira Toriyama

I paint and I draw and I write and I do other things too, and recently some people at school were asking if I'd…

— Emma Watson