Nelson DeMille Quotes

I love it when people ask if Jennifer Weiner is a pen name. Um, if I wanted a pen name I could have done a LOT better than this!

If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.

I chose my pen name when I was ten, because I knew even then that my legal name would be more trouble than it was worth.

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

I began writing when I was still in the British Foreign Service, and it was then understood that even if you wrote about butterfly collecting, you used another name.

A writer is supposed to have anonymity.

...it is a sneaking piece of cowardice for authors to put feigned names to their works, as if, like bastards of their brain, they were afraid to own them.

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.

I think maybe I might have to do what some other authors do, which is do a variation on my name, just to send readers the message that, 'Yep, this is me, but this is a different part of me. So brace yourself.'

Ever since I was in my teens I had plans at one point in my life to write a novel.

It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.

There may well be writers who roll up their sleeves and say, 'I'm going to write a post-9/11 novel' but I wasn't one of those.

I'm like Madonna: I'm Ming-Na. Just my first and middle name. That's it. Pure and simple.

I've never really done any interviews as myself.

Don't you dare print my first name. That would make me sound like a real country girl.

I'd love to do something that doesn't have my stupid face in front of it. I feel like I've exhausted what I can do with my own face.

I only like people to know what I want them to know. People didn't know what Tupac was doing. That's why he was so iconic.

One of the things you want as a successful writer is the anonymity.

I didn't intend to be a novelist. I didn't intend to be anything. I thought I'd be a journalist.

It's hard to write an Evan Hunter novel because I really am starting from scratch. I'm assuming a new voice each time. The McBain voice is set.

I was writing 'Outlander' for practise and didn't want anyone to know I was doing it. So I couldn't very well announce to my husband that I was quitting my job and abandoning him with three small children to visit Scotland to do research for a novel that I hadn't told him I was writing.

When I started writing, I just hoped for a nice little paperback series.

I just want to be known for the work I do, not my personal life or what I'm wearing.

I've always really liked the idea of an artist name, like a cover-up, even though in my music I'm being very personal in the stuff that I write about.

It wasn't until I had a platform and an opportunity like 'Being the Elite' to show people that I'm a real human being. Show people I have a personality. I think that's helped more than anything in my career.