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.

American Artist

William Ernest Henley

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.

English Poet

Mark Zuckerberg

You can use your real identity, or you can use phone numbers for something like WhatsApp, and pseudonyms for something like Instagram. But in any of those you're not just sharing and consuming content, you are also building relationships with people and building an understanding of people.

American Businessman

Evan Hunter

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.

American Author

Jeff Gannon

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.

American Journalist

Poppy Z. Brite

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.

Nicholson Baker

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.

American Novelist

Sophie Kinsella

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

Seanan McGuire

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

Gwendoline Christie

My pseudonym is 'George R. R. Martin.' That guy's just an actor.

British Actress

Writers or celebrities might use pseudonyms to keep personal life private.

Privacy Protection

Authors may choose pseudonyms when writing in a different genre to avoid reader confusion.

Genre Shift

In history, pseudonyms were often used by writers facing social or political persecution.

Historical Context

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 Or did he? Some people question whether Shakespeare really wrote the works that bear his name, or whether he even existed at all. They speculate that Shakespeare was a pseudonym for another writer, or a group of writers. Proposed candidates for the real Shakespeare

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 That's important. Something far simpler than that. It's the user reviews. You see, every single vendor on these sites uses a pseudonym, naturally enough, but they keep the same pseudonym to build up a reputation.

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