The phrase "authors play" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing the role or actions of authors in a particular situation or narrative.
Example: "In this novel, the authors play a crucial role in shaping the characters' development and the overall theme."
Alternatives: "writers' role" or "creators' involvement".
When it comes to language, the authors play fast and loose with period and culture, too.
Salinger dropped the threat, and while this experience – "stressful beyond belief" – might have made some authors play it safe, Homes has always chosen to take the most difficult path.
JERSEY CITY West Side Theater Christmas With Dickens and Dylan: "Christmas Carol," adapted by Greg Oliver Bodine, and "A Child's Christmas in Wales" by Dylan Thomas, presented as one-man shows in which the authors play all the parts.
The authors play an important role in this process as they are requested to provide structured information to be appended, in the form of human-readable paragraphs, at the end of traditional summaries.
Stressing the fact that social relations of authors play an important role for how much attention and recognition their research receives, we further contribute a quantitative view on previously hypothesized relations between the visibility of authors and citation patterns.
It's a strange dichotomy, and in Green Arrow: Rebirth #1, the authors play with that dichotomy.
The freedom with which many authors played with genre and form in 2012 suggested a revival of modernist sensibilities.
He was often called in to revise other authors' plays in last-minute efforts to get them in shape for production.
"It is clear that at least some of the authors played little direct roles in the study or review, yet still allowed themselves to be named as authors," the editorial said.
There seemed to be very few authors playing with a steampunk aesthetic in cultures outside England or Colonial America from what I could see.
Vertices with large betweenness have more influence over the information flow in the graph and can thus be considered to represent authors playing central roles in the SFN co-author network.
