From scr(i)pt Magazine: Recently arrived in Hollywood from Kentucky, screenwriter Kara Holden found success when she dropped her "southern girl" act and embraced her Inner Bitch.

 

From Ireland Online: Spoken like a true Irish writer. As his play about the riotous opening night of Sean O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars opens at the very theatre where it occurred, Colm Tóibín begs off: "Ah yeah. I would write another, but not immediately. Give me a decade of solitude."

 

From The Age (Melbourne): A weird thought in a taxi when he was 18 led to screenwriter Stuart Beattie's Collateral. (Registration required. Use ours, if you like -- Username: escriptgofer Password: escriptgofer)

 

From The Boston Globe: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa says of his plays: "People always tell me it would be great if they didn't have a supernatural monster or if everyone didn't die in the end." Hmm. Good thing Shakespeare isn't around these days.