Jonathan Tropper Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“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.”

“I think one of my better gifts as a writer is empathy.”

“I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.”

“You never have to change a book for budget.”

“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.”

“'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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”