I think people have the wrong idea of 'Moby Dick' as this somber, boring thing. — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“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 Life Copy Share Image
In fact, there's a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports and the way they are conducted. — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium. — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“So much of one's life was spent reading; it made sense not to do it alone.” — Chad Harbach Life Copy Share Image
Reading 'Moby-Dick' was really a sort of transformative literary experience for me. — Chad Harbach Experience Copy Share Image
Most great books have been about striving in some sense. In a sense, money is the great topic of the novel. You… — Chad Harbach Book Copy Share Image
“This was the dreamy, paradisiacal side of domestic ritual: when all the days were possessed of the same minutiae precisely because you… — Chad Harbach Dreams Copy Share Image
I feel like every time I start up, it's like a truck you have to get into 15th gear, so you very… — Chad Harbach Book Copy Share Image
“He felt a touch of sadness now that it had happened, now that he knew what it was like. Not because it… — Chad Harbach Life Copy Share Image
“Everyone expected him to succeed, no matter what the arena, and so failure, even temporary failure, had ceased to be an option.” — Chad Harbach Failure Copy Share Image
“Putting Henry at shortstop - it was like taking a painting that had been shoved in a closet and hanging it in… — Chad Harbach Baseball Copy Share Image
It was strange the way he loved her; a side long and almost casual love, as if loving her were simply a… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“It was strange the way he loved her: a sidelong and almost casual love, as if loving her were simply a matter… — Chad Harbach Heart Copy Share Image
“Pella felt relieved to sit across from someone who was willing to act so unreservedly glum in her presence, as if she… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“He wanted Owen to comprehend everything he lacked the courage or clarity of mind to say outright right now, to read it… — Chad Harbach Clarity of mind 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 feel like every time I start up, it's like a truck you have to get into 15th gear, so you very… — Chad Harbach Book Copy Share Image
“There were no words for that, no ceremony that would garantee your future. Every day was just that: a day, a blank,… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“It might have sounded silly, but Affenlight loved the way Owen always picked these same two mugs and even, presumably, went so… — Chad Harbach Mugs Copy Share Image
“AVERT DISASTER, in fact, would have been a perfect school motto—the purpose of the place, as far as Schwartz could tell, was… — Chad Harbach College Copy Share Image
“Though his classmates supposedly hailed form "all fifty states, Guam, and twenty-two foreign lands," as President Affenlight said in his convocation address,… — Chad Harbach Classmates Copy Share Image
“But baseball was different. Schwartz thought of it as Homeric - not a scrum but a series of isolated contests. Batter versus… — Chad Harbach Baseball Copy Share Image
“Just as abruptly, he'd become a father. While preparing the book for publication, he'd been dating a woman named Sarah Coowe, an… — Chad Harbach Beginnings Copy Share Image
“For Schwartz this formed the paradox at the heart of baseball, or football, or any other sport. You loved it because you… — Chad Harbach Art Copy Share Image
“After those four years, he returned to the Midwest. He'd turned twenty-five, the Age of Unfolding, and it was time to write… — Chad Harbach Absolute freedom Copy Share Image
“Schartz would never live in a world so open. His would always be occluded by the fact that his understanding and his… — Chad Harbach Gods Copy Share Image
“It was easy enough to write a sentence, but if you were going to create a work of art, the way Melville… — Chad Harbach Absolute freedom Copy Share Image
“A gaggle of sophomore girls wavered by in their heels, en route from Bartleby's to some house party. No two of their… — Chad Harbach House party Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a cloudless swatch of sky would blow past the moon, and Pella could see the outline of Mike's face in a… — Chad Harbach Eye to eye Copy Share Image
“Before long four dozen balls lay scattered at the base of the fence, a harvest of dirty white fruit.” — Chad Harbach Flower Copy Share Image
You don't have to even see the common man anymore if you don't want to! Only through the telescope on your yacht. — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“A moment would come, and then another, and then another. These moments would be his life.” — Chad Harbach Life Copy Share Image
Most writers, most books, you have no idea whether it was a dollar or a million dollars. — Chad Harbach Book Copy Share Image
The challenge for any fiction writer is that your job involves simply sitting at a desk for a very, very long time. — Chad Harbach Challenges Copy Share Image
“And as the end arrived and his breath left him he couldn’t remember or imagine ever having cared.” — Chad Harbach Breath Copy Share Image
I've earned my living in all sorts of terrible ways - as a janitor, a copy editor, a psychotherapist. — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
