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'The Turner Diaries' is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
Gore Vidal
Teacher
Physics
Writing
Macdonald
Andrew
Daydream
Diaries
Pseudonym
Former
Turner
If people knew that Burzum was just the band of some teenager, that would sort of ruin the magic, and for that reason, I felt that I needed to be anonymous. So I used a pseudonym, Count Grishnackh, and on the debut album, I used a photo of me that didn't look like me at all to make Burzum itself seem more out-of-this world and to confuse people.
Varg Vikernes
Me
People
World
Band
Confuse
Teenager
Ruin
Photo
Would
Some
Magic
Seem
More
Count
Knew
Like
Look
Make
Anonymous
Sort
Felt
Itself
Debut
Pseudonym
Just
Used
Reason
Album
Needed
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.
Ashwin Sanghi
Life
Me
Decision
Thought
My Life
Nothing
Appropriate
Pen
About
Struck
More
Had
Idea
Abundance
Since
Name
Shawn
However
Than
Pseudonym
Use
Novel
Hence
Why
Why Not
Desire
My pseudonym is 'George R. R. Martin.' That guy's just an actor.
Gwendoline Christie
Martin
Guy
George
Pseudonym
Just
Actor
The idea of a pseudonym had been flitting around my brain for a long time, along with its cognate, disappearance. In the 1980s, I published some poems under a pen name in a literary magazine to see what it would feel like. It was fun. It was even a little thrilling.
Michael Redhill
Time
Long
Long Time
Pen
Would
See
Magazine
Some
Poems
Thrilling
Had
Disappearance
Idea
Feel
Name
Along
Like
Around
Been
Brain
Pseudonym
Literary
Little
Fun
Even
Flitting
Published
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.
Nicholson Baker
Me
Writing
Assumed
Liberated
Would
Would-Be
Exactly
Exactly What
Wrote
Read
Pseudonym
Wanted
While
Published
'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.
Michael Koryta
Alone
Book
Envy
Thought
First
Cold
About
River
Written
Knew
Feel
Also
Because
Doing
Person
Same
Going
Pseudonym
Different
Want
Loved
Really
Stand
Why
Career
Night
Damage
Third
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.
Poppy Z. Brite
Publish
Think
Enough
Something
Put
Name
Like
Pseudonym
Want
Use
Reason
Ever
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.
Jeff Gannon
Me
People
Remember
Difficult
Spell
Television
Correctly
Pronounce
About
Name
Talking
Because
Real
Been
Very
Real Name
Pseudonym
Use
Who
Many
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.
Nicola Cornick
Writing
Own
Sense
Pen
Though
Would
Would-Be
Something
My Own
Write
Name
Sophia
Sort
Sounds
Historical
Very
Did
Pseudonym
Common
Common Sense
Use
Started