Chad Harbach

Tall people have a real advantage in the world.

— Chad Harbach

I've been a Brewers fan since birth.

— Chad Harbach

For many years I didn't have health insurance.

— Chad Harbach

“Just for the sake of my own stupid pleasure”

— Chad Harbach

“Henry," he said. "You are skilled. I exhort you.”

— Chad Harbach

You are skilled. I exhort you.

— Chad Harbach

I think people have the wrong idea of 'Moby Dick' as this somber, boring thing.

— Chad Harbach

It's very hard right now to be a pro sports fan. The economics of this stuff is abysmal.

— Chad Harbach

“The problem, like most problems in life, probably had to do with his footwork.”

— Chad Harbach

You know, it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money.

— Chad Harbach

There are three stages: Thoughtless being. Thought. Return to thoughtless being.

— Chad Harbach

People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite.

— Chad Harbach

There's certainly a large literature around baseball in the U.S.

— Chad Harbach

The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.

— Chad Harbach

For me, the process always has to be pretty intense. I could never write just two or three days a week. It…

— Chad Harbach

“Only here, long after midnight, while everyone else was sleeping, when nothing was expected of him, could Schwartz convince himself that he…

— Chad Harbach

“It was strange the way he loved her: a sidelong and almost casual love, as if loving her were simply a matter…

— Chad Harbach

“Everyone expected him to succeed, no matter what the arena, and so failure, even temporary failure, had ceased to be an option.”

— Chad Harbach

“Putting Henry at shortstop - it was like taking a painting that had been shoved in a closet and hanging it in…

— Chad Harbach

“He felt a touch of sadness now that it had happened, now that he knew what it was like. Not because it…

— Chad Harbach

It was strange the way he loved her; a side long and almost casual love, as if loving her were simply a…

— Chad Harbach

“This was the dreamy, paradisiacal side of domestic ritual: when all the days were possessed of the same minutiae precisely because you…

— Chad Harbach

“He wanted Owen to comprehend everything he lacked the courage or clarity of mind to say outright right now, to read it…

— Chad Harbach

“Pella felt relieved to sit across from someone who was willing to act so unreservedly glum in her presence, as if she…

— Chad Harbach

When I write for 'n+1,' I begin by doing a lot of reading, to try to convince myself I'm not stupid. Then…

— 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…

— Chad Harbach

“It might have sounded silly, but Affenlight loved the way Owen always picked these same two mugs and even, presumably, went so…

— Chad Harbach

“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

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

“There were no words for that, no ceremony that would garantee your future. Every day was just that: a day, a blank,…

— 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…

— Chad Harbach

“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

“For Schwartz this formed the paradox at the heart of baseball, or football, or any other sport. You loved it because you…

— Chad Harbach

“But baseball was different. Schwartz thought of it as Homeric - not a scrum but a series of isolated contests. Batter versus…

— Chad Harbach

“He already knew he could coach. All you had to do was look at each of your players and ask yourself: What…

— Chad Harbach

“It was strange the way he loved her: a sidelong and almost casual love, as if loving her were simply a matter…

— Chad Harbach

“Baseball, in its quiet way, was an extravagantly harrowing game. Football, basketball, hockey, lacrosse--these were melee sports. You could make yourself useful…

— Chad Harbach

“Baseball was an art, but to excel at it you had to become a machine. It didn't matter how beautifully you performed…

— Chad Harbach

Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.

— Chad Harbach

In fact, there's a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports and the way they are conducted.

— Chad Harbach