Role of the author, role of the depictor?

‘Speech and writing tell the world; depiction shows the world. In the one, the order of the world is given by by the author; in the other, the order of the world is yet to be designed (fully and/or definitively) by the viewer. ‘ (Kress, 2005).

Literary significance (from Wikipedia) – views of ‘author’

“In literary [...]