*Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.* [*Javier Marías*](http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/71956.Javier_Mar_as?utm_medium=email&utm_source=quote_of_the_day) Happy birthday, Javier Marías! Before becoming one of Spain’s most celebrated novelists, he made money translating Dracula scripts for his uncle, film director Jesús Franco.