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
writing two three
For me, the process always has to be pretty intense. I could never write just two or three days a week. It had to be every day.
new-york nice ambition
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.
doors feet people
Getting your foot in the door with some publishing people can be important when you're starting out as a writer, but it's also not enough to get you where you need to be.
achieve novel
Somehow, you can achieve a directness in the novel that you can't get anywhere else.
fun book writing
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.
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.