Another older writer that had a huge influence on me is Chekhov. More contemporarily, it's hard to say. — 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
The challenge for any fiction writer is that your job involves simply sitting at a desk for a very, very long time. — 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
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
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
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 Copy Share Image
Writers have the purity of their art and what they want to achieve with that, and that this purity is bound up… — 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
“It was easy enough to write a sentence, but if you were going to create a work of art , the way… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
I mean, first, almost all writers these days teach because they don't make enough money publishing to live on, to support themselves… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
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 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
Writing on a computer feels like a recipe for writer's block. I can type so fast that I run out of thoughts,… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
I think that it is very interesting to write about a team because a team is a group of people who work… — 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
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 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
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
