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:

    “Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    “Thus far with rough and all-unable pen
    Our bending author hath pursued the story.
    In little room confining mighty men.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)