Adapting your own book is like performing open-heart surgery on your own child.
- Jonathan Tropper
Book, Own, Like, Adapting
You never have to change a book for budget.
- Jonathan Tropper
Change, Book, Never, Budget
When I was sixteen, I wrote the first hundred or so pages of a novel about a piano that was haunted by the ghost of an evil blues musician.
- Jonathan Tropper
About, Hundred, Wrote, Haunted
I occasionally experience the discomfort of people assuming my work is autobiographical.
- Jonathan Tropper
Work, Assuming, Occasionally, Discomfort
Nobody wants to rock their own life. But, on the other hand, when your life does get rocked, it affords you a certain level of emotional honesty. It liberates you to be who you really are.
- Jonathan Tropper
Own, Other, Level, Liberates
There's something really satisfying if you've created a bunch of characters that have withstood 25 episodes.
- Jonathan Tropper
Characters, Created, Bunch, Satisfying
I have a handful of leather jackets, and I love them all. I think most men my age do, and it can be traced back to the Fonz and Danny Zuko.
- Jonathan Tropper
Love, Think, I Think, Danny
On any serialized show, you're going to have through-lines that take you through the season, and you're going to have individual arcs that resolve themselves in shorter order.
- Jonathan Tropper
Through, Resolve, Individual, Season
I played piano in a covers band, but that didn't especially help with girls. There is never a piano around after the shows. Guys with the guitars were the ones who got lucky.
- Jonathan Tropper
Lucky, Played, Around, Guitars
I still enjoy the tactile sensation of holding a book. But when I need to read fast for work, I use the Kindle App on my iPad.
- Jonathan Tropper
Still, App, Read, iPad
I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.
- Jonathan Tropper
Big, Bad, Action Movies, Bad Ones
Ultimately, you have to write what's coming at any given point in time. Fighting your instincts for practical reasons is a losing battle.
- Jonathan Tropper
Practical, Reasons, Given, Instincts
'Banshee' was kind of a lark. I was getting paid pretty well to write movies no one was making - and so I decided to try my hand at TV and get paid much less to actually get something produced.
- Jonathan Tropper
Pretty, Making, TV, Produced
I'm a novelist first, and I wrote a bunch of books, and everything I write, I just find people are more interesting when there's an element of humor to it.
- Jonathan Tropper
More, I Write, Wrote, Element
Screenwriting and the movie stuff could all disappear tomorrow, but to sit down with my laptop and still tell stories is my day job. I didn't believe I'd actually get to do it for a living.
- Jonathan Tropper
Living, Still, Stories, Screenwriting
There's a satisfaction I get from writing fiction that I will never get from screenwriting.
- Jonathan Tropper
Never, Will, Fiction, Screenwriting
I wrote the screenplay for 'This Is Where I Leave You' - all 40 drafts of it.
- Jonathan Tropper
Leave, Where, Wrote, Screenplay
I think one of my better gifts as a writer is empathy.
- Jonathan Tropper
Empathy, Think, Better, Gifts
I'm at my desk before nine, and I go all day. I'm not necessarily productive all day, but really, who is?
- Jonathan Tropper
Go, Nine, Before, Productive
Whether I'm writing a novel about a guy mourning the death of his father or whether I'm writing a show about people killing each other, you want to hear characters speak and be funny and witty.
- Jonathan Tropper
Father, Death, Other, Mourning
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