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
Jonathan Tropper quotes about
fate packs
Fate already warned us to pack it in. We just didn’t hear it in time.
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.
empowering comfortable
Get comfortable with being alone. It will empower you.
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.
beautiful smart kind
She was smart and funny and vulnerable and just so goddamned beautiful, the kind of beautiful that was worth being shot down over.
hero character important
You can do everything differently in a novel. Hero narrates the novel; we're in his head. You're hearing all his thought processes and you're hearing him call himself out on his bad behavior. You don't have the benefit of that narrator in a movie. What you see a character do, very often, becomes that much more important because you don't have him editorializing it for you.
conflict ass grunt
If only all our conflicts could be resolved with a few grunts and a smack in the ass.
realizing better-than-you
...you realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else.
loneliness symphony play
Loneliness is the theme, and I play it like a symphony, in endless variations.
world sometimes seems
It's amazing how harmless the world can sometimes seem.
used used-to-be
The future just isn't what it used to be
happy-endings
At this point in my life, I'm not looking for any happy endings. I'm just looking to get things started.
disappear feels instant
That's the thing about life; everything feels so permanent, but you can disappear in an instant.