"author's intent" is correct and can be used in written English.
For example, "The author's intent is to create a story that speaks to people on an emotional level."
With indirect satire, the author's intent is realized within the narrative and its story.
And yet, none of these diversionary tactics hide the author's intent.
The message was even conversational in tone, as though Lincoln had been standing next to Grant, yet it was unmistakable as to its author's intent.
But since the author's intent is to explore intolerance, hatred and evil, it is not enough that these forces merely simmer and self-perpetuate.
Most helpful to potential readers are reviews that judge a book by the author's intent, as opposed to how the reviewer would have written the book.
Moreover, as a translator, I'm a purist and avoid productions that threaten to deconstruct a sacred text or tamper with the author's intent.
This sentence has now been reworded to reflect the author's original intent.
The author's stated intent is not only to tell the story of Havel's life, and to fashion that story into the unlikely form of a tragedy, but to provide a "manual for democrats".
André Aciman took her to task for this in The New York Review of Books, claiming her rendition approached "monstrosity," echoing, as it did, "something along the lines of 'How's by you?' 'By me is fine.' " Well, awkwardness aside, it would appear that her rendering was closer to the author's original intent.
But doing this makes you lose some of the author's original intent.
Nothing here written is intended in any way to diminish any author's good intent, the good works of the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation, or the admirable purpose of the Golden Goose Award; when implemented on a basis of fact, these are all commendable.
