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“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.”

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“No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.”

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Author:Anatole France

“I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling.”

Language Markers Pseudonyms

Author:Chris Marker

“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 reputation - but, then I couldn't be myself either.”

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Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would express, in a combination of noble and striking sounds, our dream of artistic achievement, a pen name grand enough to compensate for my own feeling of insecurity and helplessness at the idea of everything my mother expected from me.”

Source: Promise at Dawn

“To answer oppression with appropriate resistance requires knowledge of two kinds: in the first place, self-knowledge by the victim, which means awareness that oppression exists, an awareness that the victim has fallen from a great height of glory or promise into the present depths; secondly, the victim must know who the enemy is. He must know his oppressor's real name, not an alias, a pseudonym, or a nom de plume!”

Source: The Education of a British-Protected Child

“My name is not Mara Dyer, but my lawyer told me I had to choose something. A pseudonym. A nom de plume, for all of us studying for the SATs. I know that having a fake name is strange, but trust me-it's the most normal thing about my life right now. Even telling you this much probably isn't smart. But without my big mouth, no one would know that a seventeen-year-old who likes Death Cab for Cutie was responsible for the murders. No one would know that somewhere out there is a B student with a body count. And it's important that you know, so you're not next.”

Source: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer

“Our Twentieth Century has proved to be more cruel than preceding centuries, and the first fifty years have not erased all its horrors. Our world is rent asunder by those same old cave-age emotions of greed, envy, lack of control, mutual hostility which have picked up in passing respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, radical conflict, struggle of the masses, trade-union disputes.”

“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 have a pen name, though, it would be something very historical - something that sounds very sort of Regency... Sophia something.”

Ifs Writing Use Would Be Names Sound My Own Common Historical Common Sense Pens Sophia Pseudonyms

Author:Nicola Cornick

“Mira Grant is actually my pseudonym. And Seanan is pronounced SHAWN-in.”

Grants Pseudonyms

Author:Mira Grant

“I haven't sworn off Facebook. I'm on Facebook. There's a fan page on Facebook that I will update, but I'm on there myself under a pseudonym, because there were a lot of people able to private-message me on Facebook, and it was getting really weird. And then with MySpace, I just don't read messages. I delete everything, and I just post updates every now and then.”

People Able Fans Havens Messages Pages Posts Now And Then Really Weird Updates Pseudonyms

Author:Patton Oswalt

“I more seriously considered publishing it under a pseudonym than I considered publishing it as fiction. I think the decision to write it as nonfiction happened at the very outset of the process, because the overwhelming impetus for writing this book was to understand what the experience meant, and to override my own reductions and rationalizations, whatever story I had that was not true. It didn't sit well with me and I needed to answer that. That's sort of the reason I write everything.”

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Author:Melissa Febos

“As for complicating the black metal aesthetic, I don't care about that since it was never a goal of mine to lay out any particular preconceived aesthetic, let alone one of traditional black metal where pseudonyms are adopted.”

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Author:Colin Marston

“When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do.”

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Author:Jaron Lanier

“I'd much rather see a world where, when you make some quirky comment on a blog or news story or you upload a video clip, instead of just a moment of fame for your pseudonym, you'll get 50 bucks. The first time that happens, you'll realise that you're a full-class citizen. You have the potential to make money from the system.”

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Author:Jaron Lanier

“I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don't have ordinarily.”

Men Writing Young Freedom Week Students Young Man Pseudonyms

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.”

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Author:Anatole France

“I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die.. and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.”

Thinking Inspirational Years Ends Dies Environment Tree Land Environmental Busy Buying Philanthropy Acres Pseudonyms

Author:Felix Dennis

“'Envy the Night' was my first stand alone, the first book I'd written in the third person and I loved the feel of that, and it was different but it was also the same. 'So Cold the River,' I knew, was going to be really different, and that's why I thought about doing it as a novella under a pseudonym, because I didn't want to damage my career.”

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Author:Michael Koryta

“I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me.”

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Author:Ed McBain

“The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm”

Men Behinds Honesty He Man Worms Pseudonyms

Author:Sylvia Plath

“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 to put my name on it.”

Thinking Want I Can Reason Enough Use Names Publish Pseudonyms

Author:Poppy Z. Brite

“Nom de Plume uses the device of the pseudonym to unite the likes of Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, Fernando Pessoa, and Patricia Highsmith into a cohesive yet highly idiosyncratic literary history. Each page affords sparkling facts and valuable insights onto the manufacturing of books and reputations, the keeping and revealing of secrets, the vagaries of private life and public opinion, and the eternally mysterious, often tormented interface between life and literature.”

“Wormholes were first introduced to the public over a century ago in a book written by an Oxford mathematician. Perhaps realizing that adults might frown on the idea of multiply connected spaces, he wrote the book under a pseudonym and wrote it for children. His name was Charles Dodgson, his pseudonym was Lewis Carroll, and the book was Through The Looking Glass.”

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Book:Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century

Source: Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century

“I use a pseudonym, because my real name is very difficult to pronounce, to remember, and to spell. And many people who have been talking about me on television have yet to pronounce it correctly.”

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Author:Jeff Gannon

“Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases, which he does not choose to acknowledge openly with his own sign manual.”

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Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The same old caveman feeling-greed, envy, violence, and mutual hate, which along the way assumed respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, racial struggle, mass struggle, labor-union struggle-are tearing our world to pieces.”

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Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“The life of Dumas is not only a monument of endeavour and success, it is a sort of labyrinth as well. It abounds in pseudonyms and disguises, in sudden and unexpected appearances and retreats as unexpected and sudden, in scandals and in rumours, in mysteries and traps and ambuscades of every kind.”

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Book:Views and reviews

Source: Views and reviews

“While I was writing I assumed it would be published under a pseudonym, and that liberated me: what I wrote was exactly what I wanted to read.”

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Author:Nicholson Baker

“I chose to publish the first 'Shopaholic' book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be judged on its own merits.”

Firsts Book Wanted Merit Judged Publish Shopaholic Pseudonyms

Author:Sophie Kinsella

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