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 sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own—that is, for his age—so as to be able even then to take pleasure in himself.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.”
    —Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)

    “Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)