“Life was long, unless you died, and he didn’t intend to spend the next sixty years talking about the last twenty-two.” — Chad Harbach Life Copy Share Image
In fact, theres a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports and the way they are conducted. — Chad Harbach Facts Copy Share Image
It remained an open question, how much sympathy love could stand. — Chad Harbach Love Copy Share Image
Another older writer that had a huge influence on me is Chekhov. More contemporarily, it's hard to say. — Chad Harbach Chekhov Copy Share Image
But people didn't forgive you for doing what felt right-that was the last thing they forgave you for. — Chad Harbach Forgive Copy Share Image
Somehow, you can achieve a directness in the novel that you can't get anywhere else. — Chad Harbach Achieve Copy Share Image
It's quite a feeling to finish something you have been 10 years beholden to and to have a clean slate. — Chad Harbach Been Copy Share Image
I play American football every Saturday, which I find calming. — Chad Harbach American 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 Book 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 Book 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
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 Doors 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 Kind 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 Hated 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 Ball player 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 Avoided 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 Book 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 Ambition Copy Share Image
If you're part of any kind of writerly community, some of those people will have gone through MFA programs, and their thinking… — Chad Harbach Book Copy Share Image
“A soul isn't something a person is born with but is something that is built, by effort and error, study ad love.… — Chad Harbach Hard work Copy Share Image
“The doctor said a ball hit me. But I don’t remember batting.” “You were in the dugout. Henry made a bad throw.”… — Chad Harbach Doctor Said Copy Share Image
But baseball was different... You stood and waited and tried to still your mind. When your moment came, you had to be… — Chad Harbach Baseball Copy Share Image
“I'm a staunch monogamist. In practice, if not in theory. I can't help it. Do I acknowledge the oppressive, regressive nature of… — Chad Harbach Believe in love Copy Share Image
“Locker rooms, in Schwartz's experience, were always underground, like bunkers and bomb shelters. This was less a structural necessity than a symbolic… — Chad Harbach Football Copy Share Image
“You told me once that a soul isn't something a person is born with but something that must be built, by effort… — Chad Harbach Cease to exist Copy Share Image
“Owen," Henry said excitedly, "I think Coach wants you to hit for Meccini." Owen closed The Voyage of the Beagle , on… — Chad Harbach Baseball Copy Share Image
“All he'd ever wanted was for nothing to change. Or for things to change only in the right ways, improving little by… — Chad Harbach Bad habit 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
“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
“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
“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
Other things awaited. It was good to be young and to know it for once. So much unfolding to do. — Chad Harbach Unfolding Copy Share Image
“Had he learned - would he ever learn - to discard the thoughts he could not use?” — Chad Harbach Learned Copy Share Image
“We don't have a single goddamn thing left to prove to anyone. We're proven. Today we play.” — Chad Harbach Prove Copy Share Image
“Before long four dozen balls lay scattered at the base of the fence, a harvest of dirty white fruit.” — Chad Harbach Flower Copy Share Image
You don't have to even see the common man anymore if you don't want to! Only through the telescope on your yacht. — Chad Harbach Common Copy Share Image
Reading 'Moby-Dick' was really a sort of transformative literary experience for me. — Chad Harbach Experience Copy Share Image
“So much of one's life was spent reading; it made sense not to do it alone.” — Chad Harbach Life Copy Share Image
I've earned my living in all sorts of terrible ways - as a janitor, a copy editor, a psychotherapist. — Chad Harbach Copy Copy Share Image
