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Originally Posted by Katsunami
If someone says to me "I am an author" without any other explanation, then I'm going to assume that he writes for work and makes money with it; that he is a professional author on the job, so to speak.
In that case, you're pretty much agreeing with me that "author" means a person who earns money.
If it then turns out that he isn't, and basically does cleaning for a day job, that person is still an author (an amateur), but he is inflating the designation.
To compare, anyone can reply: "I am a software engineer" or "I'm a singer", while the only software they write is used by themselves, and they only sing in the shower.
Yes, even if you do this stuff (writing, software engineering... anything, basically) for fun only, you're still an author/software engineer/anything, but you'd be wise not to mention it as your primary job or hint at it as your way of making a living if you cannot convincingly back it up. You'd be making a fool of yourself.
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What I get out of this explanation is that you're basically agreeing with me that label "author" implies that one is earning money through writing.