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 author of these words,
    Whose lifelong unconcern
    Has been with flocks and herds
    For what they didn’t earn.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything short- lived or local, but abode by real and abiding traits.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.”
    —Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)