I think people have the wrong idea of 'Moby Dick' as this somber, boring thing. — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
But people didn't forgive you for doing what felt right-that was the last thing they forgave you for. — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite. — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
I'm just kind of really interested in athletes as artists of a pretty serious variety and people who devote themselves to what… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
Getting your foot in the door with some publishing people can be important when you're starting out as a writer, but it's… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
... people loved to suffer, as long as the suffering made sense. Everybody suffered. The key was to choose the form of… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
If you're part of any kind of writerly community, some of those people will have gone through MFA programs, and their thinking… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
The effects of MFA programs, and the rise of creative writing instruction more generally, are far more diffuse than people think. Even… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
I mean, first, almost all writers these days teach because they don't make enough money publishing to live on, to support themselves… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
I think that it is very interesting to write about a team because a team is a group of people who work… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
Other things awaited. It was good to be young and to know it for once. So much unfolding to do. — Chad Harbach Copy Share
“The problem, like most problems in life, probably had to do with his footwork.” — Chad Harbach Copy Share
There are no whys in a person's life, and very few hows. In the end, in search of useful wisdom, you could only come… — Chad Harbach Copy Share
“He wished that college required you to use your body more, forced you to remember that life was lived in four dimensions.” — Chad Harbach Copy Share
“The girl-women scampered around a beach house in various states of preparative undress, wriggled into sundresses, shook out their hair…They possessed a veneer of… — Chad Harbach Copy Share
“After those four years, he returned to the Midwest. He'd turned twenty-five, the Age of Unfolding, and it was time to write a novel,… — Chad Harbach Copy Share
“It dawned on him—as it hadn’t before; he was dense, he was slow—that his parents were five hundred miles away. They could make him… — Chad Harbach Copy Share
“Though his classmates supposedly hailed form "all fifty states, Guam, and twenty-two foreign lands," as President Affenlight said in his convocation address, they all… — Chad Harbach Copy Share
A lot of my close friends had tolerantly washed their hands of the whole idea of me writing a book. They had said to… — Chad Harbach Copy Share
“Ella was nineteen," Pella interrupted to say. She hated the namelessness of women in stories, as if they lived and died so that men… — Chad Harbach Copy Share
“Neither had said so, but she could tell. Unless she was just paranoid, living in her head again, but you always lived in your… — Chad Harbach Copy Share
I feel like every time I start up, it's like a truck you have to get into 15th gear, so you very solely crank… — Chad Harbach Copy Share
“It was easy enough to write a sentence, but if you were going to create a work of art, the way Melville had, each… — Chad Harbach Copy Share
“Life was long, unless you died, and he didn’t intend to spend the next sixty years talking about the last twenty-two.” — Chad Harbach Copy Share
