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
The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.
Plato
In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.
Voltaire
Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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 great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.
Henry Miller
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
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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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