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> [Adapting your own book is like performing open-heart surgery on your own child.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-tropper/adapting-your-own-book-is-like-performing-open-heart-surgery-on-your/)

[Jonathan Tropper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-tropper/)

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> [Obviously it's easier when I' m doing the adapting myself. But my feeling is, your potential upside far outweighs the downside. Ultimately,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-tropper/obviously-it-s-easier-when-i-m-doing-the-adapting-myself-but-my/)

[Jonathan Tropper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-tropper/)

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> [It's sort of an organic process when you're adapting any book, not even just your own. You want to preserve the heart…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-tropper/it-s-sort-of-an-organic-process-when-you-re-adapting-any-book-not/)

[Jonathan Tropper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-tropper/)

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## More by Jonathan Tropper

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-tropper/the-thing-about-living-alone-is-that-it-gives-you-a-lot-of-time-to/)

[Jonathan Tropper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-tropper/)

> [“Phillip, who is congenitally incapable of moderation,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-tropper/phillip-who-is-congenitally-incapable-of-moderation/)

[Jonathan Tropper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-tropper/)

> [“There's always a last time. If you could remember every last time, you'd never stop grieving.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-tropper/there-s-always-a-last-time-if-you-could-remember-every-last-time-you/)

[Jonathan Tropper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-tropper/)

> [“In my family, we don’t so much air our grievances as wallow in them. Anger and resentment are cumulative.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-tropper/in-my-family-we-don-t-so-much-air-our-grievances-as-wallow-in-them/)

[Jonathan Tropper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-tropper/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-tropper/do-i-really-look-so-pathetic-to-all-of-you-like-i-couldn-t-possibly/)

[Jonathan Tropper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-tropper/)

> [I still enjoy the tactile sensation of holding a book. But when I need to read fast for work, I use the Kindle App…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-tropper/i-still-enjoy-the-tactile-sensation-of-holding-a-book-but-when-i-need/)

[Jonathan Tropper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-tropper/)

> [“Being gay is like taking a crash course in human nature,” he says. “Your first real glimpse at the dirty underbelly of routine social…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-tropper/being-gay-is-like-taking-a-crash-course-in-human-nature-he-says-your/)

[Jonathan Tropper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-tropper/)

> [“It's just hard to see people from your past when your present is so cataclysmically fucked.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-tropper/it-s-just-hard-to-see-people-from-your-past-when-your-present-is-so/)

[Jonathan Tropper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-tropper/)

> [I occasionally experience the discomfort of people assuming my work is autobiographical.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-tropper/i-occasionally-experience-the-discomfort-of-people-assuming-my-work/)

[Jonathan Tropper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-tropper/)

> [“Few things are more pathetic than an unemployed man with a business card. P.15”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-tropper/few-things-are-more-pathetic-than-an-unemployed-man-with-a-business/)

[Jonathan Tropper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-tropper/)

> [“We knew marriage could be difficult in the same way that we knew there were starving children in Africa. It was a tragic fact…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-tropper/we-knew-marriage-could-be-difficult-in-the-same-way-that-we-knew/)

[Jonathan Tropper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-tropper/)

> [“attractive women in the early stages of disrepair, fighting to keep age at bay with facials, compression undergarments, and aggressively fashionable skirts bought off…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-tropper/attractive-women-in-the-early-stages-of-disrepair-fighting-to-keep/)

[Jonathan Tropper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-tropper/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-tropper/as-far-as-rapprochements-go-it-s-awkward-and-vague-but-the-advantage/)

[Jonathan Tropper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-tropper/)

> [I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-tropper/i-m-a-big-action-junkie-i-grew-up-on-the-80s-action-movies-the-bad/)

[Jonathan Tropper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-tropper/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-tropper/shudders-and-seems-to-sink-a-bit-further-and-the-contractor-is/)

[Jonathan Tropper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-tropper/)

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