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> [The idea of the writer who writes nineteen novels, with various ups and downs and levels of experimentation, isn't around so much now. There's a focus, I think, on fewer books, with more pressure on each book to succeed. With…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chad-harbach/the-idea-of-the-writer-who-writes-nineteen-novels-with-various-ups/)

[Chad Harbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chad-harbach/)

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## More by Chad Harbach

> [Other things awaited. It was good to be young and to know it for once. So much unfolding to do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chad-harbach/other-things-awaited-it-was-good-to-be-young-and-to-know-it-for-once/)

[Chad Harbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chad-harbach/)

> [“The problem, like most problems in life, probably had to do with his footwork.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chad-harbach/the-problem-like-most-problems-in-life-probably-had-to-do-with-his/)

[Chad Harbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chad-harbach/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chad-harbach/there-are-no-whys-in-a-person-s-life-and-very-few-hows-in-the-end-in/)

[Chad Harbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chad-harbach/)

> [“He wished that college required you to use your body more, forced you to remember that life was lived in four dimensions.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chad-harbach/he-wished-that-college-required-you-to-use-your-body-more-forced-you/)

[Chad Harbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 veneer of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chad-harbach/the-girl-women-scampered-around-a-beach-house-in-various-states-of/)

[Chad Harbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chad-harbach/)

> [“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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chad-harbach/after-those-four-years-he-returned-to-the-midwest-he-d-turned-twenty/)

[Chad Harbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chad-harbach/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chad-harbach/it-dawned-on-him-as-it-hadn-t-before-he-was-dense-he-was-slow-that/)

[Chad Harbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chad-harbach/)

> [For many years I didn't have health insurance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chad-harbach/for-many-years-i-didn-t-have-health-insurance/)

[Chad Harbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chad-harbach/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chad-harbach/though-his-classmates-supposedly-hailed-form-all-fifty-states-guam/)

[Chad Harbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chad-harbach/)

> [A lot of my close friends had tolerantly washed their hands of the whole idea of me writing a book. They had said to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chad-harbach/a-lot-of-my-close-friends-had-tolerantly-washed-their-hands-of-the/)

[Chad Harbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chad-harbach/)

> [“Ella was nineteen," Pella interrupted to say. She hated the namelessness of women in stories, as if they lived and died so that men…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chad-harbach/ella-was-nineteen-pella-interrupted-to-say-she-hated-the-namelessness/)

[Chad Harbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chad-harbach/)

> [“Neither had said so, but she could tell. Unless she was just paranoid, living in her head again, but you always lived in your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chad-harbach/neither-had-said-so-but-she-could-tell-unless-she-was-just-paranoid/)

[Chad Harbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chad-harbach/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chad-harbach/i-feel-like-every-time-i-start-up-it-s-like-a-truck-you-have-to-get/)

[Chad Harbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chad-harbach/)

> [“It was easy enough to write a sentence, but if you were going to create a work of art, the way Melville had, each…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chad-harbach/it-was-easy-enough-to-write-a-sentence-but-if-you-were-going-to/)

[Chad Harbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chad-harbach/)

> [“Life was long, unless you died, and he didn’t intend to spend the next sixty years talking about the last twenty-two.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chad-harbach/life-was-long-unless-you-died-and-he-didn-t-intend-to-spend-the-next/)

[Chad Harbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chad-harbach/)

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