author's control

But the author's control falters when he turns to furnishing the landscape through which the People move.

Not every experiment remains firmly in the author's control, and her ghost story of sorts, "Rules for Being Human," is almost unreadable.

No matter how brilliantly it could be argued that textual meaning is independent of the author's control, it remains the case that the unaided text cannot generate its own meanings.

"War and Peace" gives as powerful a suggestion of the living as a fixed art can do, and we know that any chance which entered into its creation is subject to its author's control.

The people in Gaitskill's stories often behave unconventionally and impulsively; they may seem to have an agency outside their author's control, doing what not even she could expect, but they never escape her pitiless eye and meticulous hand.