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Rafael Yglesias

Literary Birthday – 12 May – Rafael Yglesias

Happy Birthday, Rafael Yglesias, born on 12 May 1954.

Rafael Yglesias Quotes

  1. Whether you want to entertain or to provoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to your writing must consist of your longings and disappointments.
  2. Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn’t is always troublesome. Over time, people learn – or not – how to negotiate what’s difficult, but that doesn’t mean the misfit has gone away entirely.
  3. To me, people’s lives and loves are entwined with their characters, natures and circumstances.
  4. It’s hard to conceive of someone who could work for at least a few hours each day for months and years on the same story without it being close enough to their life experience to fuel their commitment.
  5. In general, I was influenced by the 19th century realists… The almost missionary zeal with which they detail the psychology of their characters and reveal the material secrets of the society in which they lived, have always been more thrilling to me than the most elegant sentence.

Rafael Yglesias is an American novelist and screenwriter. He is the author of 11 novels. He is best known for Hide Fox, And All After and A Happy Marriage, which won the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He adapted Fearless for the screen. His later works include The Wisdom of Perversity. Yglesias’ screenplays ‘include Death and the Maiden, directed by Roman Polanski and based on the play by Ariel Dorfman; Les Misérables, directed by Bille August and based on the novel by Victor Hugo, and From Hell, directed by the Hughes Brothers and based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell. His film Dark Water is a remake of a J-horror film of the same name and was directed by Walter Salles’. Follow him on X.

Source for photograph: Author’s Website


by Amanda Patterson

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