Could Quote by 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

While I was writing I assumed it would be published under a pseudonym, and that liberated me: what I wrote was exactly what I…

— Nicholson Baker

I just loved the idea of writing for different personalities all the time.

— David Droga

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

— Anthony Burgess

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…

— Joyce Carol Oates

For everyone I know who is a writer, there was some awkward time in their lives when they had to learn to call themselves…

— James Bernard Frost

I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day,…

— Daniel Pinkwater

Writing was always an aspiration, but I'd kept it a secret even from myself.

— Kevin Powers

Writing is very liberating and therapeutic.

— Natalya Neidhart

I think if I was ever really going to be more serious about writing I'd have to try and find some way to do…

— Romola Garai

I became fascinated by the fact that people write to give away rather than write to be read. It's the difference between playwrights and…

— David Suchet

Writing is a solitary occupation, and we like it that way.

— Julianne MacLean