Quote by Thomas Hardy

“A name is a powerful thing. It sets one apart and gives significance.”

— Jessica Khoury

“I spent a long time writing in obscurity. You'll spend a long time writing in obscurity. ”

— Dan Kennedy

“People don't always need a name.”

— Edward Averett

“or maybe people just like to overpraise a famous name.”

— George R.R. Martin

“Names are not of nearly as much import as people like to suppose.”

— Erin Morgenstern

“Words are pale shadows of forgotten names.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Out of obscurity I came, to obscurity I can easily return. ”

— Charlotte Brontë

“Everything looks so much alike that you wonder how people got the idea of inventing names, to make distinctions.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“About half the people in the world dislike their own name.”

— Haruki Murakami

“Names are important as they tell you a great deal about a person. I’ve had more names than anyone has a right to.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Everyone should know what it is like to be called by name. By the name of the unique person one is at heart.”

— Mary Balogh

“I prefer to use the names their parents gave them -- the names that society will recognize them by when they return to become…

— Louis Sachar