The phrase "author sustains" is not commonly used in written English and may not convey a clear meaning without context.
It could be used in a context discussing how an author maintains a certain theme, tone, or narrative throughout a work.
Example: "In her novel, the author sustains a sense of tension that keeps readers engaged until the very end."
Alternatives: "author maintains" or "author upholds".
It's a long book, and the first pleasant surprise is that the author sustains the laughs throughout.
Every writer is first a member of a community of readers, and the deepest purpose of reading and writing fiction is to sustain a sense of connectedness, to resist existential loneliness; and so a novel deserves a reader's attention only as long as the author sustains the reader's trust.
Google, even though it is not itself an author, sustains the contemporary virtual public sphere by creating an analogous structure of communication.
The author sustains that phosphatidylinositol is present in all eukaryotes and actinobacteria but not in other bacteria (results: Unibacteria: links between Posibacteria and Actinobacteria).
Joshua Prager, a journalist and author, sustained a disabling spinal cord injury in a 1990 bus accident when he was 19.
Some authors sustain that this species presented a marked decrease in its geographical distribution due to a combination of several factors, e.g., habitat loss, trade-offs with domestic species (cattle or dogs), poaching, malnutrition, and infectious disease (Díaz and Smith-Flueck 2000; López-Alfaro et al. 2012; Corti et al. 2011, 2013).
Most authors sustain that a non-enhanced acquisition should always be performed in order to detect intraparenchymal, subcapsular or perinephric haematomas, which will appear as slightly hyperattenuating areas or collections during this phase, whereas they might be barely recognisable on post-contrast images [26, 27, 28].
All realistic inside VMT problems familiar to the authors sustain the standard VMT settings.
When the authors sustain that the PG is the best explanation of the evidence of lateral connections between lineages, critics are bound to be sceptical, mainly because the PG hypothesis is designed in order to accommodate these data.
The authors sustain that this observation provides evidence of the existence of a genetics characteristic of each population and it makes less and less impressive the results of GWASs, which include different populations, even more difficult to interpret.
That said, to reduce the novel to a "just say no" diatribe would be to greatly miss one of its and its author's sustaining points.
