Author

Author

An author is broadly defined as "the person who originated or gave existence to anything" and whose authorship determines responsibility for what was created.

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Famous quotes containing the word author:

    “The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, “I will tell you a story,” and then he passes the hat.”
    —Robertson Davies (b. 1913)