Chad Harbach
Chad Harbach
Chad Harbachis an American writer. An editor at the journal n + 1, he is the author of the 2011 novel The Art of Fielding...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
kindness infinite chekhov
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.
You are skilled. I exhort you.
book fighting years
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.
It remained an open question, how much sympathy love could stand.
real people world
Tall people have a real advantage in the world.
girl school striving-to-be-the-best
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.
keys long people
... people loved to suffer, as long as the suffering made sense. Everybody suffered. The key was to choose the form of your suffering.
football play calming
I play American football every Saturday, which I find calming.
jobs long challenges
The challenge for any fiction writer is that your job involves simply sitting at a desk for a very, very long time.
years
For many years I didn't have health insurance.
forgiveness people forgiving
But people didn't forgive you for doing what felt right-that was the last thing they forgave you for.
sports hate way
In fact, theres a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports and the way they are conducted.
fun writing worry
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.
life believe world-issues
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.