Author and Writer Differentiation

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Two words 'author' and 'writer' are often used as synonyms of each other due a misconceived notion. The two words have quite different meanings. The word 'author' has a derivative 'authority' which points out to the fact that a person who expresses himself with an authority on the subject is an author. The writer has many connotations, even a document writer is also a writer, a person writing on other's dictation is also a writer, etc. In essence, an original thinker when expresses him/herself is in the role of an author.