Occasionally, I am offered the opportunity to do an interview or give a guest lecture about being a writer and often this question will be presented: How do I handle writer’s block? It is a topic that ...

CHICO — Award-winning screenplay writer Lynn Elliott gets inspiration for his works from a variety of places. Elliott, who taught English at Chico State from 1972 to 2005 and served as chair of the ...

For a writer, inspiration comes in many forms and can hit at the oddest of moments. For author Jayne Anne Phillips, the inspiration for her most recent novel, "Lark and Termite," came in the form of a ...

“The central, final, inescapable fact is that inspired words create life in us because they are themselves alive,” wrote English classical scholar Cecil Maurice Bowra in 1955. Did he have a point? Is ...

SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - As the grandson of mob boss Vito "Don Vito" Genovese, author Phil Genovese grew up with a surname in which he took little pride, but he has turned his childhood experiences ...

Mexican-American Writer Finds Inspiration In Family, Tragedy & Trump : Fresh Air Luis Alberto Urrea's book 'The House of Broken Angels' borrows from the story of his older brother, who died of cancer.