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I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The experience of writing under a pseudonym was tremendously liberating; I could write what I wanted.
Because of my pseudonym Gulzar, which is how I am known, some people think I am a Muslim.
In 1962 I wrote for ‘Jazz News,’ using the pseudonym Manfred Manne, which I picked because of a jazz drummer with that name. I later dropped the ‘e.’
‘Mira Grant’ is actually my pseudonym. And ‘Seanan’ is pronounced ‘SHAWN-in.’
I used to have a pseudonym for Twitter, and I’m trying to get my check to verify me.
The decision to use a pen name was nothing more than a desire to compartmentalise my life. However, I had not thought about an appropriate pseudonym, and since there’s an abundance of anagrams in the novel, the idea struck me: why not use an anagram of my name? Hence, Shawn Haigins.
I wanted a pseudonym partly because I’m quite shy and private. I know that sounds ludicrous, but if I should be lucky enough to make a hit, I wanted to be able to shrug off the mantel of Nick Harkaway when I got home.
It becomes dangerous for somebody who doesn’t want their boss to know their sexual preference to use online networks to push for laws supporting gay marriage or same-sex partner rights if they can’t do so with a pseudonym.
I read one of the funniest books last week by Don DeLillo. He wrote this book, ‘Amazons’ many years ago, under the pseudonym Cleo Birdwell. The book is very funny but I also think it’s funny that he denies any involvement with it.
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.
‘The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
In 2008, Bitcoin was mysteriously introduced to the world in an obscure, technical paper written under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. By late 2013, the financial press was filled with reportage on Bitcoin and its dramatic price increase.
Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
