Jonathan Tropper
Jonathan Tropper
Jonathan Tropperis an American writer and an adjunct faculty member at Manhattanville College...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth19 February 1970
CountryUnited States of America
character writing pieces
Novel writing, to me, is all about language: choosing your words, finding the characters within the words and just really agonizing over every word. It's really crafting this whole piece from nothing.
brother father kissing
You never know when it will be the last time you'll see your father, or kiss your wife, or play with your little brother, but there's always a last time. If you could remember every last time, you'd never stop grieving.
different our-family different-directions
Phillip is the Paul McCartney of our family: better-looking than the rest of us, always facing a different direction in pictures, and occasionally rumored to be dead.
awkward inarticulate tricks
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 do the trick.
character writing mind
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 who the character is. Once somebody gets cast, I have to adjust a little bit to who they are.
people parent impossible
It's hard to imagine her ever having felt lost, but it's impossible to know the people your parents were before they were your parents.
years skins trying
Things have been a mess for so many years that trying to pin down a starting point is like trying to figure out where your skin starts.
people waiting next
There are some people out there who don't wait for what come next. They decide what should come next and they go and make it happen.
fate packs
Fate already warned us to pack it in. We just didn’t hear it in time.
want sound remember
I want to explain everything to him, show him that it’s really not as screwed up as it all sounds, but then I remember that it is.
love hate people
We don't stop loving people just because we hate them, but we don't stop hating them either.
passion heartache way
I loved her for the way she embraced the unknown, how she opened herself up to every experience. When I was with her, she opened me up, too, stirred my passion and heightened my every sensation. Which was great, until she left me and all my heightened senses to deal with the heartache of losing her.
love-you thinking should-have
I would have done the same thing I did. I would have put all my energy into loving someone that wasn't you. I would have tried in vain, every day, to not think about you, and what could have been. What should have been. I would have tried to convince myself that there's no such thing as true love, except for the love you yourself make work, even though I know better....The bottom line is I never had any business marrying anyone who wasn't you.
lines hoping-for-the-best screenwriting
I'm generally somebody who hopes for the best. It's not what one ought to do in my line of work [screenwriting], but it is what I do.