Narrator is a participant in the story from 3d person point of view-author is just a writer of a book, with/without a narrator.
A fashion designer designs and a writer writes.
there is no difference.
In literature, the speaker is talking to others in the story; the narrator is talking to the reader.
There's a 7 years age difference between Sonny and his brother.
A zip drive stores compressed data. A DVD writer transfer data....
The writer should ask himself, "How much should the narrator know about the story?".
Every writer has their own style of writing. It's the same as their style of speaking. The difference is the same as the difference between individuals. It's not so much that this difference is important -- it's something that just happens.
The author is the person who writes the story, while the narrator is the character who tells the story within the text.
The cast of I Am the Writer - 2013 includes: Artistikem as Narrator
When a postmodern writer or the story's narrator begins to directly address the reader it is an example of metafiction, where the narrator intentionally exposes himself or herself as the author of the story.
Omniscient narrator/writer.
The narrator is the character who tells the story within the literary work, while the author is the person who actually wrote the story.