Words matter. These are the best Chad Harbach Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I think people have the wrong idea of ‘Moby Dick’ as this somber, boring thing.
Reading ‘Moby-Dick’ was really a sort of transformative literary experience for me.
Somehow, you can achieve a directness in the novel that you can’t get anywhere else.
The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.
I play American football every Saturday, which I find calming.
You know, in the old days, you might be able to slowly sort of build an audience for your work by publishing two, three novels before you hit it big. You know, now, there’s much more of an emphasis in the publishing houses on making sure that every book makes money.
When I write for ‘n+1,’ I begin by doing a lot of reading, to try to convince myself I’m not stupid. Then I scribble down a paragraph here, a paragraph there, when a notion strikes. Then I see if I can arrange those notions in a way that yields an argument.
I feel like every time I start up, it’s like a truck you have to get into 15th gear, so you very solely crank into that mental space where you feel really immersed in the world of the book and then you can just kind of go. But there’s just that few days of frustration to get to that point.
American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be described and traced through it.
I’ve been a Brewers fan since birth.
Every dude in your high school wasn’t striving to be the best poet because then he’d get all the girls, right? But you could imagine a society in which that were the case.
For many years I didn’t have health insurance.
I mean, first, almost all writers these days teach because they don’t make enough money publishing to live on, to support themselves – people like Tobias Wolff, Anne Beattie, Amy Hempel, Stuart Dybek; a lot of short story writers, for one thing.
There are things you do when you’re writing that are so fun to do it’s almost like they’re private jokes that are amusing to you but no one else is going to enjoy them nearly as much and you worry you’re going to have to take them out in the end.
To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea.
I’ve earned my living in all sorts of terrible ways – as a janitor, a copy editor, a psychotherapist.
Tall people have a real advantage in the world.