I've earned my living in all sorts of terrible ways - as a janitor, a copy editor, a psychotherapist. — Chad Harbach 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
Reading 'Moby-Dick' was really a sort of transformative literary experience for me. — Chad Harbach Experience 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 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
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
“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
“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 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 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
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
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 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
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'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
“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
You know, in the old days, you might be able to slowly sort of build an audience for your work by publishing… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“Why would anyone want to fight Henry?" Loondorf looked hurt. "Because he's a ballplayer." "So?" "So he's a baller. He's got cash,… — Chad Harbach 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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 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 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
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
“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
... people loved to suffer, as long as the suffering made sense. Everybody suffered. The key was to choose the form of… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
He already knew he could coach. All you had to do was look at each of your players and ask yourself: What… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
Each of us, deep down, believes that the whole world issues from his own precious body, like images projected from a tiny… — 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 Book 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
American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be described and traced through it. — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“3. There are three stages. Thoughtless being. Thought. Return to thoughtless being. 33. Do not confuse the first and third stages. Thoughtless… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
