Author and Influence

Related words

Author noun - A person who creates a written work.

Show all Definitions

Influence and author are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Influence" instead a noun "Author".

Influence noun - The power to direct the thinking or behavior of others usually indirectly.

Show all Definitions

Author and influence are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Author" instead a noun "Influence".

human	human author	human influence
good	good author	good influence
single	single author	single influence
actual	actual author	actual influence
Other adjectives: real, great, bad, main, new, primary, greatest, Christian, western, roman.

The author character will usually not influence the plot and may be only loosely tied to the goings-on, their appearances being quite random.

Source: Author Avatar
In Last and First Men (1930) by Olaf Stapledon, the foreword claims that, while the author believed himself to be writing fiction, in reality, he was writing under the influence of the distant-future Last Men, who used a sort of time-traveling telepathy to influence past minds.

Source: Direct Line to the Author
Arthur Machen, an author whose The Great God Pan and other stories were a major influence on H.P. Lovecraft.

Source: Useful Notes / Wales

Cite this Source

Influence and Author. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/author/influence

Author & Influence. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/author/influence>.

Influence or Author. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/author/influence.

Google Ngram Viewer shows how "author" and "influence" have occurred on timeline