Like many of us, Christopher Hampton reads novels while on holiday; unlike most of us, his leisure-time reading sometimes turns into a job of several years’ duration. Hampton, the Oxford-educated ...

“If I’d told them that I was writing stories and dreamt of becoming a writer, they would doubtless have thought, I have a screw loose. And if I’d told them about my romance with a divorcée, who was ...

While they share similarities, they aren’t exactly the same. You're in the right place if you’ve ever wondered about the difference. A screenwriter writes scripts specifically for film, television, ...

In Mario Vargas Llosa's novel about his early days as a writer, his main character tries and tries again to get his work right. To present a live production of that tale, "La Tía Julia y el escribidor ...