A lot of writers choose to live in New York, partly because of the literary culture here, and partly because Brooklyn’s a pretty nice place to live. And a lot of writers who might not geographically reside in New York still point their ambitions towards New York in some sense.

— Chad Harbach

Chad Harbach Quotes

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.

— Chad Harbach

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.

— Chad Harbach

He already knew he could coach. All you had to do was look at each of your players and ask yourself: What story does this guy wish someone would tell him about himself? And then you told the guy that story.

— Chad Harbach

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.

— Chad Harbach

Another older writer that had a huge influence on me is Chekhov. More contemporarily, it’s hard to say.

— Chad Harbach

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.

— Chad Harbach

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

You don’t have to even see the common man anymore if you don’t want to! Only through the telescope on your yacht.

— Chad Harbach

I think the MFA programs have had a real effect on the state of American fiction, but I don’t think it’s a question of “this is written by someone with an MFA, and this isn’t.” I challenge anyone to identify a book in that way. It’s totally impossible.

— Chad Harbach

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

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.

— Chad Harbach

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.”

— Chad Harbach

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.

— Chad Harbach

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

— Chad Harbach

Poetry might be more about the eternal verities, the essence of the human soul, and – although it’s reductive to say so – fiction has perhaps been more about the differences between the unconstrained world of the imagination and the realities you run into, day-to-day, when you’re riding your donkey.

— Chad Harbach

Looking at and shaping your own work is a very intuitive process. You see something you’ve written in your notebook. It’s there on the page and either feels right or it doesn’t, and it’s hard sometimes to go beyond that and discover why it feels that way.

— Chad Harbach

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.

— Chad Harbach

The doctor said a ball hit me. But I don’t remember batting.” “You were in the dugout. Henry made a bad throw.” “Henry did? Really? Are you sure?” “Yes.” “Well, it’s always the ones you least suspect.” Owen let his eyes fall shut. “I don’t remember anything at all. Was I reading?” Affenlight nodded. “I warned you. It’s a dangerous pastime.

— Chad Harbach

Everything that had ever happened was trapped inside him.

— Chad Harbach

She’d gotten so far ahead of the curve that the curve became a circle, and now she was way behind.

— Chad Harbach
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