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:

    “Certain books seem to have been written not for the purpose that we learn something from them but that we know that the author was a knowledgeable person.”
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    “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 must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.”
    —Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)