16 Chad Harbach Quotes for You to Enjoy

Chad Harbach

American Writer

Been Me Money People Writing You

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For many years I didn't have health insurance. Chad Harbach

Health Health Insurance Insurance Years Many

It's quite a feeling to finish something you have been 10 years beholden to and to have a clean slate. Chad Harbach

You Feeling Something Finish Clean Been Years Quite Beholden Slate

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

Sports Hate Way About Fact Lot Pro In Fact

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. Chad Harbach

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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. Chad Harbach

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

I've earned my living in all sorts of terrible ways - as a janitor, a copy editor, a psychotherapist. Chad Harbach

Living Earned Ways Terrible Sort Editor Janitor Copy

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

Best Writing Parents Seemed Idea Precarious

Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes. Chad Harbach

Me Involve Nonfiction Very Different Fiction Processes

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

I've been a Brewers fan since birth. Chad Harbach

Birth Since Been Fan

Reading 'Moby-Dick' was really a sort of transformative literary experience for me. Chad Harbach

Me Experience Reading Sort Literary Transformative Really

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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