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 is largely a function of intelligence and self-awareness, not time on your hands. But you do become very good at thinking yourself into endless loops of desperation in half the time it would take a normal person.
Jonathan TropperI've never been shot, but this probably what it feels like, that second of nothingness right before the pain catches up to the bullet.
Jonathan TropperAs 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.
Jonathan TropperBut the muse wonโt always cooperate and she will never be coerced. Sometimes sheโd rather take a nap or see a mid-afternoon movie.
Jonathan TropperYou 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.
Jonathan Tropper