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:

    “Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word.”
    —Gail Hamilton (1833–1896)

    “He writes free verse, I’m told, and he is thought
    To be the author of the Seven Freedoms:
    Free Will, Trade, Verse, Thought, Love, Speech, Coinage.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.”
    —John Ruskin (1819–1900)