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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    “There exist few things more tedious than a discussion of general ideas inflicted by author or reader upon a work of fiction.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    “Can an author with reason complain that he is cramped and shackled if he is not at liberty to publish blasphemy, bawdry, or sedition? all of which are equally prohibited in the freest governments, if they are wise and well-regulated ones.”
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