It's quite a feeling to finish something you have been 10 years beholden to and to have a clean slate. — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“We don't have a single goddamn thing left to prove to anyone. We're proven. Today we play.” — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“Had he learned - would he ever learn - to discard the thoughts he could not use?” — 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 Image
“Only here, long after midnight, while everyone else was sleeping, when nothing was expected of him, could Schwartz convince himself that he… — Chad Harbach Midnight Copy Share Image
For me, the process always has to be pretty intense. I could never write just two or three days a week. It… — 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 Art Copy Share Image
My favorite sports novel is End Zone by Delillo. It's such a great looking book too, the black cover with the football… — 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
I do think that sports is really rich dramatically that, and this is kind of a self-serving thing to say, but I… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“She hated the namelessness of women in stories, as if they lived and died so that men could have metaphysical insights.” — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“Ella was nineteen," Pella interrupted to say. She hated the namelessness of women in stories, as if they lived and died so… — Chad Harbach Wisdom Copy Share Image
Poetry might be more about the eternal verities, the essence of the human soul, and - although it's reductive to say so… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“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… — Chad Harbach College life Copy Share Image
There are things you do when you're writing that are so fun to do it's almost like they're private jokes that are… — Chad Harbach Amusing Copy Share Image
Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it's a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players… — Chad Harbach Action Copy Share Image
The idea of the writer who writes nineteen novels, with various ups and downs and levels of experimentation, isn't around so much… — Chad Harbach Book Copy Share Image
“...a soul isn't something a person is born with but something that must be built, by effort and error, study and love.… — Chad Harbach Education Copy Share Image
“Why would anyone want to fight Henry?" Loondorf looked hurt. "Because he's a ballplayer." "So?" "So he's a baller. He's got cash,… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“Literature could turn you into an asshole: he’d learned that teaching grad-school seminars. It could teach you to treat real people the… — Chad Harbach Books Copy Share Image
“Opentoe College had some sort of evangelical mission that involved perpetual kindness and hopelessly outdated uniforms. The Harpooners hated them for it.… — Chad Harbach Goals 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
“Henry knew better than to want freedom. The only life worth living was the unfree life, the life Schwartz had taught him,… — Chad Harbach Freedom Copy Share Image
“Henry had never felt so happy. Freshperson year had been one thing, an adventure, an exhilaration, all in all a success, but… — Chad Harbach Constant struggle Copy Share Image
“What would he say to her, if he was going to speak truly? He didn't know. Talking was like throwing a baseball.… — Chad Harbach Love and sex Copy Share Image
“There’s so much standing around,’ Owen said when Henry asked him what he liked about the game. ‘And pockets in the uniforms.” — Chad Harbach Football Copy Share Image
Every dude in your high school wasn't striving to be the best poet because then he'd get all the girls, right? But… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“Pella felt like she knew a lot about men, but she couldn’t imagine what it would be like to be one of… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“...a soul isn't something a person is born with but something that must be built, by effort and error, study and love.” — 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
He already knew he could coach. All you had to do was look at each of your players and ask yourself: What… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
A lot of my close friends had tolerantly washed their hands of the whole idea of me writing a book. They had… — Chad Harbach Book Copy Share Image
Each of us, deep down, believes that the whole world issues from his own precious body, like images projected from a tiny… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“3. There are three stages. Thoughtless being. Thought. Return to thoughtless being. 33. Do not confuse the first and third stages. Thoughtless… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“You are still just doing journalism—or, worse, book reviewing. “What lice will do, when they have no more blood to suck,” as… — Chad Harbach Books Copy Share Image
American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be described and traced through it. — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“He wished that college required you to use your body more, forced you to remember that life was lived in four dimensions.” — Chad Harbach College Copy Share Image
I tended to write the book in these bursts of two or three months at a time. So I would know, or… — Chad Harbach Book Copy Share Image
“Give them Keats. Everyone loves Keats.” I remember one kid laughing at the line, “More happy love / More happy, happy love.”… — Chad Harbach Happy love Copy Share Image
