When I went to the University of Southern California for my MFA in screenwriting, I took a one-hour TV drama course for my thesis. My thesis adviser said there were three types of TV writers: “big ...

British novelist Charles Dickens (1812-1870) sat in his study in Gads Hill near Rochester, Kent circa 1860. He wrote one of the best first lines in literature. Great opening lines to books set the ...

I was on a plane recently when I saw what I believed to be a great crime being committed. A man, reading a hardcover book, upon pausing and wanting to mark the page, folded in from the corner in such ...