Definition of Author

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Author

The beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence, the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator.

One who composes or writes a book; a composer, as distinguished from an editor, translator, or compiler.

The editor of a periodical.

An informant.

To occasion; to originate.

To tell; to say; to declare.

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Author Quotations

Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
Buddha

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

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

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
Thomas Paine

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.
Voltaire

If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.
Wilson Mizner

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.
Blaise Pascal

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.
Alexis de Tocqueville

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

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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