Chad Harbach Quotes
People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite.
I do think that sports is really rich dramatically that, and this is kind of a self-serving thing to say, but I wonder why there aren't more, better sports novels.
Other things awaited. It was good to be young and to know it for once. So much unfolding to do.
In fact, theres a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports and the way they are conducted.
For me, the process always has to be pretty intense. I could never write just two or three days a week. It had to be every day.
But people didn't forgive you for doing what felt right-that was the last thing they forgave you for.
The Human Condition being, basically, that we’re alive and have access to beauty, can even erratically create it, but will someday be dead and will not.
Another older writer that had a huge influence on me is Chekhov. More contemporarily, it's hard to say.
My favorite sports novel is End Zone by Delillo. It's such a great looking book too, the black cover with the football player on it. It's just a fantastic little book.
The challenge for any fiction writer is that your job involves simply sitting at a desk for a very, very long time.
Most great books have been about striving in some sense. In a sense, money is the great topic of the novel. You couldn't necessarily say that about poetry.
Getting your foot in the door with some publishing people can be important when you're starting out as a writer, but it's also not enough to get you where you need to be.
It is no fun at all to have been writing a book for seven or so years, especially when you've never published anything before.
A lot of my close friends had tolerantly washed their hands of the whole idea of me writing a book. They had said to themselves, "I don't know what he's doing."
I sold a book six years after I left an MFA program. In between, there was a lot of endurance of poverty and a lot of fighting off doubt. It's all a part of the process of being or becoming a writer.
Writers have the purity of their art and what they want to achieve with that, and that this purity is bound up with the messy material conditions of trying to make a living while doing that work.
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.
I tended to write the book in these bursts of two or three months at a time. So I would know, or at least feel securely, that for the next few months I was at least going to have a few hours a day.
The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.
Most writers, most books, you have no idea whether it was a dollar or a million dollars.
... people loved to suffer, as long as the suffering made sense. Everybody suffered. The key was to choose the form of your suffering.
It's very hard right now to be a pro sports fan. The economics of this stuff is abysmal.
It was strange the way he loved her; a side long and almost casual love, as if loving her were simply a matter of course, too natural to mention.
You don't have to even see the common man anymore if you don't want to! Only through the telescope on your yacht.
I'm just kind of really interested in athletes as artists of a pretty serious variety and people who devote themselves to what they do in a really incredible way.
