71.   Thomas, the dog author, came to Williams as many authors have -- initially in search of legal advice and only later seeking artistic representation.

72.   To answer that, an author has to take his eye away from the microscope and look around.

73.   Unpublished authors often have great ideas that peter out after a dozen pages.

74.   We like to think that book-burning is futile and that the banned authors have the last word.

75.   What the author has to say about the Internet, in fact, seems more a provocative idea than a conviction.

76.   Without the payments, they argue, authors would have less motivation to write and publishers would trim back their book lists.

77.   You get the impression that its author had a lot of accidents as a child.

78.   You wonder if the author himself had a vendetta against the guy.

79.   Yet neither author has any great expectations about cracking the best-seller lists.

80.   Readers should know that the author has had better luck than the couples she observes.