Adapting your own book is like performing open-heart surgery on your own child. — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
When I was sixteen, I wrote the first hundred or so pages of a novel about a piano that was haunted by… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist first, and I wrote a bunch of books, and everything I write, I just find people are more interesting… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
I still enjoy the tactile sensation of holding a book. But when I need to read fast for work, I use the… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“In The Book of Joe by Jonathan Tropper, Wayne is talking to Joe about "days that matter". Wayne says, "It's simple really.… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“I was sprawled out in my usual position on the couch, half asleep but entirely drunk, torturing myself by tearing memories out… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
It's sort of an organic process when you're adapting any book, not even just your own. You want to preserve the heart… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
Whether I'm writing a novel about a guy mourning the death of his father or whether I'm writing a show about people… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
Novel writing, to me, is all about language: choosing your words, finding the characters within the words and just really agonizing over… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
When I'm writing novels, even screenplays, it's never an actor I have in mind; it's always the version in my head of… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
Obviously it's easier when I' m doing the adapting myself. But my feeling is, your potential upside far outweighs the downside. Ultimately,… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
You can do everything differently in a novel. Hero narrates the novel; we're in his head. You're hearing all his thought processes… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“But someday I'll fall in love again, right? I'll start over with someone, and maybe we'll buy a big old house with… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share
“There's always a last time. If you could remember every last time, you'd never stop grieving.” — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share
“In my family, we don’t so much air our grievances as wallow in them. Anger and resentment are cumulative.” — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share
“Do I really look so pathetic to all of you? Like I couldn't possibly meet someone on my own? Half the people in the… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share
I still enjoy the tactile sensation of holding a book. But when I need to read fast for work, I use the Kindle App… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share
“Being gay is like taking a crash course in human nature,” he says. “Your first real glimpse at the dirty underbelly of routine social… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share
“It's just hard to see people from your past when your present is so cataclysmically fucked.” — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share
I occasionally experience the discomfort of people assuming my work is autobiographical. — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share
“Few things are more pathetic than an unemployed man with a business card. P.15” — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share
“We knew marriage could be difficult in the same way that we knew there were starving children in Africa. It was a tragic fact… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share
“attractive women in the early stages of disrepair, fighting to keep age at bay with facials, compression undergarments, and aggressively fashionable skirts bought off… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share
As far as rapprochements go, it's awkward and vague, but the advantage of being as emotionally inarticulate as we are is that it will… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share
I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones. — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share
“shudders and seems to sink a bit further. “And the contractor is running two other jobs in the neighborhood. The Jacobsons, he’s redoing their… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share
![“Obviously it's easier when I' m doing the adapting myself. But my feeling is, your potential upside far outweighs the downside. Ultimately, they [moviemakers] can't change your book. Your book remains on the shelf the way you wrote it. If they make a great movie of your book, then you have the…” quote by Jonathan Tropper](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/fba/jonathan-tropper-1555_adapting_obviously-it-s-easier-when-i-m-doing-the_2596791.jpg)
