'Everything is interesting'

 

“Whether you want to entertain or toprovoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to your writing mustconsist of your longings and disappointments.” –Rafael Yglesias

Born in New York on this date in 1954, novelist and screenwriter Yglesias isperhaps best known for his book and screenplay Fearless, bothmultiple award winners and nominees.  A “sandwich” member in a familywriters – the son of two and father of two – he also is married to a writer,the novelist Ann Packer.    

 

Literally a “born writer,” Yglesiaswrote his first successful novel, Hide Fox, And After All in the 10th grade,and his novel A Happy Marriage also won multiple awards.  His latest is The Wisdom ofPerversity.   Among his many writing successes for thescreen is his popular version of Les Miserables,featuring Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush and Uma Thurman.

 

Noted for creating complexcharacters, he said, “The most fun thing about being a writer is thateverything is interesting.”