An author (sometimes, in reference to a woman author, authress or authoress) is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.

Contents

• 1 Author of a written or legally copied work
  • 1.1 Legal significance
  • 1.2 Literary significance
• 2 Relationship between author and publisher
• 3 Relationship between author and editor
• 4 Compensation
• 5 See also
• 6 References
• 7 Further reading

Author of a written or legally copied work

Noun

authors

1. plural form of author

authors

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of author.

Authors are persons who originate or gives existence to anything, said authorship determining responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.

Contents

• 1 Sourced
  • 1.1 Millar v Taylor (1769)
  • 1.2 Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)
• 2 See also
• 3 External links

Sourced

• It is the rust we value, not the gold; Authors, like coins, grow dear, as they grow old.
  • Alexander Pope, Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace, Second Book of Horace, Epigram I, line 35.

• I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
  • Alexander Pope, The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, preface (1717)

• Authors—essayist, atheist, novelist, realist, rhymester, play your part, Paint the mortal shame of nature with the living hues of art.
  • Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Locksley Hall Sixty Years After, Line 139 (1886)