I think people have the wrong idea of 'Moby Dick' as this somber, boring thing. — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
Somehow, you can achieve a directness in the novel that you can't get anywhere else. — Chad Harbach 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 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 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
“We don't have a single goddamn thing left to prove to anyone. We're proven. Today we play.” — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“Had he learned - would he ever learn - to discard the thoughts he could not use?” — Chad Harbach 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
“Everyone expected him to succeed, no matter what the arena, and so failure, even temporary failure, had ceased to be an option.” — Chad Harbach Failure Copy Share Image
“Putting Henry at shortstop - it was like taking a painting that had been shoved in a closet and hanging it in… — Chad Harbach Baseball Copy Share Image
“He felt a touch of sadness now that it had happened, now that he knew what it was like. Not because it… — Chad Harbach Life Copy Share Image
It was strange the way he loved her; a side long and almost casual love, as if loving her were simply a… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“Only here, long after midnight, while everyone else was sleeping, when nothing was expected of him, could Schwartz convince himself that he… — Chad Harbach Midnight Copy Share Image
“It was strange the way he loved her: a sidelong and almost casual love, as if loving her were simply a matter… — Chad Harbach Heart 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
“He wanted Owen to comprehend everything he lacked the courage or clarity of mind to say outright right now, to read it… — Chad Harbach Clarity of mind 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
“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 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
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
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
“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
“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
“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 Art 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
“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 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
“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
“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
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
It's quite a feeling to finish something you have been 10 years beholden to and to have a clean slate. — Chad Harbach 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
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
