110 Quotes by Chad Harbach

For many years I didn't have health insurance.

In fact, theres a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports and the way they are conducted.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.