Chad Harbach Quotes

• It remained an open question, how much sympathy love could stand.

  Chad Harbach

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  Tags in Question

• 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

  Topics in Soul

• 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.

  Chad Harbach

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  Tags in Slowly, Novels

• Writing on a computer feels like a recipe for writer’s block. I can type so fast that I run out of thoughts, and then I sit there and look at the words on the screen, and move them around, and never get anywhere. Whereas in a notebook I just keep plodding along, slowly, accumulating sentences, sometimes even surprising myself.

  Chad Harbach

  Topics in Computer

  Tags in Recipe, Plodding

• 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.

  Chad Harbach

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  Tags in Notion, Convince

• 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.

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  Tags in Private, Worry

• I was a ballplayer, but only for a limited time. I grew up playing in Wisconsin. It’s a very sports-centric part of the country that I grew up in and I played a lot of sports, but baseball first and foremost. I played through high school. I was a middle-infielder.

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  Tags in Played, High School

• 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.

  Chad Harbach

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Publishing, Teach

• 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.

  Chad Harbach

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in High School, Striving

• Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it’s a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players roam around, in baseball everyone has their little plot of the field to tend. When the action comes to you, the spotlight is on you but no one can help you.

  Chad Harbach

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  Tags in Spotlight, Action

• To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea.

  Chad Harbach

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  Tags in Precarious, Seemed

• You know, it’s sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don’t make money.

  Chad Harbach

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Short Story, Short

• There’s certainly a large literature around baseball in the U.S.

  Chad Harbach

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  Tags in Literature, Large

• The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.

  Chad Harbach

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  Tags in Ultimate, Novel

• Somehow, you can achieve a directness in the novel that you can’t get anywhere else.

  Chad Harbach

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  Tags in Somehow, Achieve

• Tall people have a real advantage in the world.

  Chad Harbach

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  Tags in Advantage, Tall

• It’s quite a feeling to finish something you have been 10 years beholden to and to have a clean slate.

  Chad Harbach

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  Tags in Slate, Finish

• Reading ‘Moby-Dick’ was really a sort of transformative literary experience for me.

  Chad Harbach

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  Tags in Reading, Literary

• I’ve earned my living in all sorts of terrible ways – as a janitor, a copy editor, a psychotherapist.

  Chad Harbach

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  Tags in Earned, Editor

• In fact, there’s a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports and the way they are conducted.

  Chad Harbach

  Topics in Sports

  Tags in In Fact, Hate

Chad Harbach (32)

Birth:	1975
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Editor, Writer

About

Chad Harbach is an American writer. An editor at the journal n + 1, he is the author of the 2011 novel The Art of Fielding. Harbach grew up in Racine, Wisconsin. His father was an accountant and his mother the head of a Montessori school. Harbach graduated from Harvard University, where he became friendly with fellow writers and journalists Keith Gessen and Benjamin Kunkel. He received an MFA from the University of Virginia.

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