Somehow, you can achieve a directness in the novel that you can't get anywhere else. — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
Most writers, most books, you have no idea whether it was a dollar or a million dollars. — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
It is no fun at all to have been writing a book for seven or so years, especially when you've never published… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 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 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 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
A lot of my close friends had tolerantly washed their hands of the whole idea of me writing a book. They had… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
I sold a book six years after I left an MFA program. In between, there was a lot of endurance of poverty… — 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
You know, in the old days, you might be able to slowly sort of build an audience for your work by publishing… — Chad Harbach 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 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
I tended to write the book in these bursts of two or three months at a time. So I would know, or… — 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 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
“The problem, like most problems in life, probably had to do with his footwork.” — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
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 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 Copy Share Image
“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 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 a novel,… — 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 make him… — Chad Harbach 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, they all… — 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 said to… — 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 that men… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“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 Image
