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
football play calming
I play American football every Saturday, which I find calming.
form novel mediums
The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.
book ideas dollars
Most writers, most books, you have no idea whether it was a dollar or a million dollars.
years
For many years I didn't have health insurance.
You are skilled. I exhort you.
young unfolding be-young
Other things awaited. It was good to be young and to know it for once. So much unfolding to do.
book writing two
I tended to write the book in these bursts of two or three months at a time. So I would know, or at least feel securely, that for the next few months I was at least going to have a few hours a day.
mean people support
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.
forgiveness people forgiving
But people didn't forgive you for doing what felt right-that was the last thing they forgave you for.
return three stage
There are three stages: Thoughtless being. Thought. Return to thoughtless being.
sports hate way
In fact, theres a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports and the way they are conducted.
sports baseball errors
But baseball was different... You stood and waited and tried to still your mind. When your moment came, you had to be ready, because if you f****d up, everyone would know whose fault it was. What other sport not only kept a stat as cruel as the error, but posted it on the scoreboard for everyone to see? ... You could only try so hard not to try too hard before you were right back around to trying too hard. And trying hard, as everyone told him, was wrong, all wrong.
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.