Top 20 Quotes by Jonathan Tropper

'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.

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

I wrote the screenplay for 'This Is Where I Leave You' - all 40 drafts of it.

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.

I'm at my desk before nine, and I go all day. I'm not necessarily productive all day, but really, who is?

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.

There's something really satisfying if you've created a bunch of characters that have withstood 25 episodes.

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.

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.