The chief thing was to select a name totally different from those under which he had hitherto written: so that when he used the name, he would feel like a different person, and in consequence write from a somewhat different angle. I have been told - by men who do not write - that this is all fanciful. This only means that they don't understand.


Explaining why he used many different pseudonyms. - Oxford Companion to Children's Literature: "Charles Hamilton" (pages 235-7)

Charles Hamilton Quotes

The chief thing was to select a name totally different from those under which he had hitherto written: so that when he used the name, he would feel...

The chief thing was to select a name totally different from those under which he had hitherto written: so that when he used the name, he would feel...

The chief thing was to select a name totally different from those under which he had hitherto written: so that when he used the name, he would feel...

The chief thing was to select a name totally different from those under which he had hitherto written: so that when he used the name, he would feel...