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Definition of Author

Author

  1. The beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence, the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator.
  2. One who composes or writes a book; a composer, as distinguished from an editor, translator, or compiler.
  3. The editor of a periodical.
  4. An informant.
  5. To occasion; to originate.
  6. To tell; to say; to declare.

Author Quotations

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
Abraham Lincoln

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
Jim Rohn

The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
John Locke

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.
Plato
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Author Translations

author in Afrikaans is skrywer
author in Danish is forfatter, autor
author in Dutch is schrijver, bedenker, auteur, schepper
author in French is initiateur, auteur
author in German is Verfasser, Schriftsteller, Autor {m}, Verfasser
author in Italian is quattrocentista, autore
author in Latin is scriptor, auctor
author in Norwegian is opphavsmann, forfatter
author in Portuguese is autor

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