The challenge for any fiction writer is that your job involves simply sitting at a desk for a very, very long time. — Chad Harbach Challenges Copy Share Image
“And as the end arrived and his breath left him he couldn’t remember or imagine ever having cared.” — Chad Harbach Breath Copy Share Image
Most writers, most books, you have no idea whether it was a dollar or a million dollars. — Chad Harbach Book Copy Share Image
“A moment would come, and then another, and then another. These moments would be his life.” — Chad Harbach Life Copy Share Image
“There were no whys in a person's life, and very few hows. In the end, in search of useful wisdom, you could… — Chad Harbach Kindness Copy Share Image
“All he’d ever wanted was for nothing to ever change. Or for things to change only in the right ways, improving little… — Chad Harbach Change things Copy Share Image
“To reach a ball he has never reached before, to extend himself to the very limits of his range, and then a… — Chad Harbach Baseball 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 Books Copy Share Image
“When a philosopher wants high ceilings, he goes outside'. He doesn't buy an oversize house that requires massive amounts of dwindling resources… — Chad Harbach Ceilings Copy Share Image
“Hadn't the myth of the glory of homeownership been debunked once and for all? Did he really want to trade his free… — Chad Harbach Free time Copy Share Image
The Human Condition being, basically, that we’re alive and have access to beauty, can even erratically create it, but will someday be… — Chad Harbach Alive Copy Share Image
“The only life worth living was the unfree life... the life in which you were chained to your one true wish, the… — Chad Harbach Life 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 Feelings 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 Amy 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 Able Copy Share Image
“In his life he'd passed through long periods of gratefulness and good cheer, but he'd scarcely even imagined this level of thorough… — Chad Harbach Contentment Copy Share Image
Looking at and shaping your own work is a very intuitive process. You see something you've written in your notebook. It's there… — Chad Harbach Feels 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 Accumulate Copy Share Image
“That was what made the story so epic: the player, the hero, had to suffer mightily en route to his final triumph.… — Chad Harbach Football Copy Share Image
Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it's a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players… — Chad Harbach Action Copy Share Image
“Henry knew better than to want freedom. The only life worth living was the unfree life, the life Schwartz had taught him,… — Chad Harbach Freedom 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
“Schartz would never live in a world so open. His would always be occluded by the fact that his understanding and his… — Chad Harbach Gods Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a cloudless swatch of sky would blow past the moon, and Pella could see the outline of Mike's face in a… — Chad Harbach Eye to eye Copy Share Image
“A gaggle of sophomore girls wavered by in their heels, en route from Bartleby's to some house party. No two of their… — Chad Harbach House party 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… — Chad Harbach Heart 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 Becoming Copy Share Image
“Give them Keats. Everyone loves Keats.” I remember one kid laughing at the line, “More happy love / More happy, happy love.”… — Chad Harbach Happy love 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 Book 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 Achieve Copy Share Image
“You could only try so hard not to try too hard before you were right back around to trying too hard. And… — Chad Harbach Try hard 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 Art Copy Share Image
“Pella felt like she knew a lot about men, but she couldn’t imagine what it would be like to be one of… — Chad Harbach Felt Like Copy Share Image
“...a soul isn't something a person is born with but something that must be built, by effort and error, study and love.” — Chad Harbach Built Copy Share Image
Every dude in your high school wasn't striving to be the best poet because then he'd get all the girls, right? But… — Chad Harbach Because Copy Share Image
“There’s so much standing around,’ Owen said when Henry asked him what he liked about the game. ‘And pockets in the uniforms.” — Chad Harbach Football 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 Book 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 College 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 Books Copy Share Image
