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Chad Harbach Quotes

It’s quite a feeling to finish something you have been 10 years beholden to and to have a clean slate Picture Quote #1

There are no whys in a person’s life, and very few hows. In the end, in search of useful wisdom, you could only come back to the most hackneyed concepts, like kindness, forbearance, infinite patience. Solomon and Lincoln: This too shall pass. Damn right it will. Or Chekhov: Nothing passes. Equally true Picture Quote #1

Each of us, deep down, believes that the whole world issues from his own precious body, like images projected from a tiny slide onto an earth-sized screen. And then, deeper down, each of us knows he’s wrong Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be described and traced through it Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

I think people have the wrong idea of ‘Moby Dick’ as this somber, boring thing Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The challenge for any fiction writer is that your job involves simply sitting at a desk for a very, very long time Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

It’s very hard right now to be a pro sports fan. The economics of this stuff is abysmal Picture Quote #1

In fact, there’s a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports and the way they are conducted Picture Quote #1

Pella felt relieved to sit across from someone who was willing to act so unreservedly glum in her presence, as if she weren’t there. David never did that--David’s eyes were always right on her, probing, admiring, assessing, enjoying. That was what he called love Picture Quote #1

For many years I didn’t have health insurance Picture Quote #1

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It remained an open question, how much sympathy love could stand Picture Quote #1

There are three stages: Thoughtless being. Thought. Return to thoughtless being Picture Quote #1

You are skilled. I exhort you Picture Quote #1

Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes Picture Quote #1

Tall people have a real advantage in the world Picture Quote #1

Somehow, you can achieve a directness in the novel that you can’t get anywhere else Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

... people loved to suffer, as long as the suffering made sense. Everybody suffered. The key was to choose the form of your suffering Picture Quote #1

Other things awaited. It was good to be young and to know it for once. So much unfolding to do Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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It’s quite a feeling to finish something you have been 10 years beholden to and to have a clean slate. (Chad Harbach Quotes) There are no whys in a person’s life, and very few hows. In the end, in search of useful wisdom, you could only come back to the most hackneyed concepts, like kindness, forbearance, infinite patience. Solomon and Lincoln: This too shall pass. Damn right it will. Or Chekhov: Nothing passes. Equally true (Chad Harbach Quotes) Each of us, deep down, believes that the whole world issues from his own precious body, like images projected from a tiny slide onto an earth-sized screen. And then, deeper down, each of us knows he’s wrong (Chad Harbach Quotes) 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 Quotes) American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be described and traced through it. (Chad Harbach Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) I think people have the wrong idea of ‘Moby Dick’ as this somber, boring thing (Chad Harbach Quotes) 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 Quotes) To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea (Chad Harbach Quotes) 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. (Chad Harbach Quotes) The challenge for any fiction writer is that your job involves simply sitting at a desk for a very, very long time. (Chad Harbach Quotes) 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. (Chad Harbach Quotes) 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. (Chad Harbach Quotes) It’s very hard right now to be a pro sports fan. The economics of this stuff is abysmal. (Chad Harbach Quotes) In fact, there’s a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports and the way they are conducted (Chad Harbach Quotes) Pella felt relieved to sit across from someone who was willing to act so unreservedly glum in her presence, as if she weren’t there. David never did that--David’s eyes were always right on her, probing, admiring, assessing, enjoying. That was what he called love. (Chad Harbach Quotes) For many years I didn’t have health insurance (Chad Harbach Quotes) It remained an open question, how much sympathy love could stand (Chad Harbach Quotes) There are three stages: Thoughtless being. Thought. Return to thoughtless being (Chad Harbach Quotes) You are skilled. I exhort you (Chad Harbach Quotes) Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes (Chad Harbach Quotes) Tall people have a real advantage in the world (Chad Harbach Quotes) Somehow, you can achieve a directness in the novel that you can’t get anywhere else (Chad Harbach Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) ... people loved to suffer, as long as the suffering made sense. Everybody suffered. The key was to choose the form of your suffering (Chad Harbach Quotes) Other things awaited. It was good to be young and to know it for once. So much unfolding to do (Chad Harbach Quotes) 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 (Chad Harbach Quotes) 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 (Chad Harbach Quotes)

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