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" Like most people in college, I just wasn’t really sure who I was. " - Maggie Rogers

" I used to object to being called an Indian writer, and would always say I was a writer who happened to be an Indian, and who happened to write about Indians. " - James Welch

" I have my real name and RJ. I’ve gone by RJ since I was eight, but I was named Roy after my grandfather. They called me Little Roy, which sounded like Leroy with a Texas accent, but my mom didn’t want to have a Leroy as a son, so it went to RJ. " - RJ Mitte

" If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex. " - Norman MacCaig

" I’m Serena Williams on the court, but away I have so many different names. I call myself Butterfly. " - Serena Williams

" 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

" Can’t be no Mamba. I don’t want to be a snake. " - Nick Young

" I was born this way. I haven’t worked for it. That’s why it’s easy for me. It’s not even on my mind. I don’t choose every day to be gay. I choose to work hard and be a better person than I was yesterday. " - Carl Nassib

" First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III. " - Beau Bridges

" People always want to identify a writer with their protagonist. " - Monica Ali