Quotes About Pseudonyms

#1. A very practical way to control who can interact with you, your credentials and your reputation is to partition 'you' into the multiple personas formed from pseudonyms. This

David Birch

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

Jaron Lanier

#3. 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.

William Ernest Henley

#4. There is a difference between using a made-up name and using real people as pseudonyms. People are not costumes you can wear. They are flesh and blood.

Siri Hustvedt

#5. But,' I ducked the subject, 'don't heaps of artists use pseudonyms?'
'Who?'
'Um ... ' Only Cliff Richard and Sid Vicious came to mind.

David Mitchell

#6. 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.

Colin Marston

#7. 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.

Felix Dennis

#8. 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.

Mark Zuckerberg

#9. 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.

Evan Hunter

#10. 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.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#11. Using pseudonyms was such a part of the early feminist movement. We didn't want to have this star system. We wanted attention on the ideas, not the persona of the writer.

Bell Hooks

#12. In January 2012, Google Plus started to roll out support for nicknames and pseudonyms, but those registering with a name other than their real-life one must be able to prove that they have been using that alternative name elsewhere, either on the Web or in real life.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#13. I am thinking more and more about what I want to and can do after my days as an active athlete. Thoughts like family and marriage also cross my mind more and more often.

Roger Federer

#14. It was stupid to hope, she knew. But sometimes hope was all you had.

Cassandra Clare

#15. Safety and constancy were illusions granted only to those afraid enough not to peer beyond the walls.

James Rozoff

#16. 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.

Joyce Carol Oates

#17. We master the technique of our jobs.

Steven Pressfield

#18. Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose, and terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.

Al Franken

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#20. The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm

Sylvia Plath

#21. Fairest of all that earth beholds, the hues
That live among the clouds, and flush the air,
Lingering, and deepening at the hour of dews.

William C. Bryant

#22. I liked money more than going to school.

Norton Simon

#23. I am often asked why I use a variety of pen names. The answer is that this way readers always know which of my three worlds they will be entering when they pick up one of my books.

Jayne Ann Krentz