Chad Harbach

Tall people have a real advantage in the world.

— Chad Harbach

I've been a Brewers fan since birth.

— Chad Harbach

You are skilled. I exhort you.

— Chad Harbach

“Just for the sake of my own stupid pleasure”

— Chad Harbach

For many years I didn't have health insurance.

— Chad Harbach

“Henry," he said. "You are skilled. I exhort you.”

— Chad Harbach

Another older writer that had a huge influence on me is Chekhov. More contemporarily, it's hard to say.

— Chad Harbach

It remained an open question, how much sympathy love could stand.

— Chad Harbach

In fact, theres a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports and the way they are conducted.

— Chad Harbach

Somehow, you can achieve a directness in the novel that you can't get anywhere else.

— Chad Harbach

But people didn't forgive you for doing what felt right-that was the last thing they forgave you for.

— Chad Harbach

People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite.

— Chad Harbach

There are three stages: Thoughtless being. Thought. Return to thoughtless being.

— Chad Harbach

It's very hard right now to be a pro sports fan. The economics of this stuff is abysmal.

— Chad Harbach

“Hadn't the myth of the glory of homeownership been debunked once and for all? Did he really want to trade his free…

— Chad Harbach

“To reach a ball he has never reached before, to extend himself to the very limits of his range, and then a…

— Chad Harbach

“She’s been reading too much, he thought -had drifted across that line that separated what you might find in a book from…

— Chad Harbach

“When a philosopher wants high ceilings, he goes outside'. He doesn't buy an oversize house that requires massive amounts of dwindling resources…

— Chad Harbach

“All he’d ever wanted was for nothing to ever change. Or for things to change only in the right ways, improving little…

— Chad Harbach

“There were no whys in a person's life, and very few hows. In the end, in search of useful wisdom, you could…

— Chad Harbach

“The only life worth living was the unfree life... the life in which you were chained to your one true wish, the…

— Chad Harbach

The Human Condition being, basically, that we’re alive and have access to beauty, can even erratically create it, but will someday be…

— Chad Harbach

“A soul isn't something a person is born with but is something that is built, by effort and error, study ad love.…

— Chad Harbach

A lot of writers choose to live in New York, partly because of the literary culture here, and partly because Brooklyn's a…

— Chad Harbach

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

I think the MFA programs have had a real effect on the state of American fiction, but I don't think it's a…

— Chad Harbach

But baseball was different... You stood and waited and tried to still your mind. When your moment came, you had to be…

— Chad Harbach

“The doctor said a ball hit me. But I don’t remember batting.” “You were in the dugout. Henry made a bad throw.”…

— Chad Harbach

“The girl-women scampered around a beach house in various states of preparative undress, wriggled into sundresses, shook out their hair…They possessed a…

— Chad Harbach

When I write for 'n+1,' I begin by doing a lot of reading, to try to convince myself I'm not stupid. Then…

— Chad Harbach

“Baseball, in its quiet way, was an extravagantly harrowing game. Football, basketball, hockey, lacrosse--these were melee sports. You could make yourself useful…

— Chad Harbach

“All he'd ever wanted was for nothing to change. Or for things to change only in the right ways, improving little by…

— Chad Harbach

“Owen," Henry said excitedly, "I think Coach wants you to hit for Meccini." Owen closed The Voyage of the Beagle , on…

— Chad Harbach

“You told me once that a soul isn't something a person is born with but something that must be built, by effort…

— Chad Harbach

“Locker rooms, in Schwartz's experience, were always underground, like bunkers and bomb shelters. This was less a structural necessity than a symbolic…

— Chad Harbach

“Baseball was an art, but to excel at it you had to become a machine. It didn't matter how beautifully you performed…

— Chad Harbach

“It was strange the way he loved her: a sidelong and almost casual love, as if loving her were simply a matter…

— Chad Harbach

“He already knew he could coach. All you had to do was look at each of your players and ask yourself: What…

— Chad Harbach

You know, it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money.

— Chad Harbach

“The problem, like most problems in life, probably had to do with his footwork.”

— Chad Harbach