Sentence examples for author's creation from inspiring English sources

So it's O.K. for him to radically change another author's creation, just so no one messes with his? Thanks.

Some had commended the author's creation of a wildly untrustworthy protagonist, who was completely blind to her own deceitfulness.

Sometimes an author's creation, be it a character or a concept, so far transcends its origins that it almost becomes fair game.

Although the screenplay by Ronald Harwood ("The Pianist") dutifully quotes and paraphrases Mr. García Márquez, Florentino comes across as a pallid Xerox copy of the author's creation.

So much so that a friend of mine didn't find out until very recently which was the author and which was the author's creation.

Now, just in time for the centenary of Fleming's birth, his estate has commissioned a new Bond novel, "Devil May Care," by Sebastian Faulks, a British author whose best-known previous book, "Birdsong," is a historical drama set during World War I. Taking over another author's creation four decades after his death is tricky under any circumstances.

There is no single copyright standard that will protect an author's creations throughout the world.

The new law prescribed a copyright term of 14 years, with a provision for renewal for a similar term, during which only the author and the printers they chose to license their works to could publish the author's creations.

Harry Potter, with his wand, spells and broomstick, would undoubtedly beat Wimpy Kid Greg Heffley if the pair were ever to face off, but American author Jeff Kinney's creation has nonetheless bested JK Rowling's boy wizard be named the surprise winner of the best children's book of the decade.

Rebus, promised the Scottish author, will be "as stubborn and anarchic as ever", and will find himself in trouble with the author's latest creation, Malcolm Fox, of Edinburgh's internal affairs unit.

Further mischief – I can't say "confusion" for her tricks delight rather than bewilder – arises from the potent blend of fact and fiction that Duncker concocts with a glorious abandon as the details of the final decade of Eliot's life – at least that have made it into historical record – are combined with the author's fictional creations.