Chad Harbach Quotes

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• People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite.

  Chad Harbach

  Opposites, People, Adults

  "The Art of Fielding". Book by Chad Harbach, September 2011.

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• Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it's a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players roam around, in baseball everyone has their little plot of the field to tend. When the action comes to you, the spotlight is on you but no one can help you.

  Chad Harbach

  Basketball, Soccer, Baseball

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• To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea.

  Chad Harbach

  Writing, Ideas, Parent

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• 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

  Book, Writing, Hands

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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.

  Chad Harbach

  Mean, People, Support

  "Universities Gain Power In Literary World". Interview with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. December 12, 2010.

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• 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.

  Chad Harbach

  Kindness, Infinite, Chekhov

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• Heat radiated off Henry's face. Salty snot ran down his upper lip. A majestic fart propelled him to the top of Section 12, just at the springing of the stadium's curve. He slapped the sign as if high-fiving a teammate. It gave back a game shudder. He was crusing now, darkness be damned, stripping off his sweatshirt and his long underwear top without breaking stride.

  Chad Harbach

  Running, Games, Curves

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• I think that it is very interesting to write about a team because a team is a group of people who work in very close quarters and have very intense relationships so - in my days of playing sports, I was very rarely on a team that did not have it's own peculiar dynamic, and you wind up having very intense feelings for good and for bad about these people with whom you spend many hours a day.

  Chad Harbach

  Sports, Team, Writing

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Other things awaited. It was good to be young and to know it for once. So much unfolding to do.

  Chad Harbach

  Unfolding, Young, Knows

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• 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.

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  Sports, Player, Guy

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• It was strange the way he loved her; a side long and almost casual love, as if loving her were simply a matter of course, too natural to mention.

  Chad Harbach

  Love, Long, Matter

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

  Chad Harbach

  Jobs, Long, Challenges

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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.

  Chad Harbach

  Life, Believe, World Issues

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• 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.

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  Fun, Writing, Worry

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• 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.

  Chad Harbach

  Sports, Baseball, Errors

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• 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

  Book, Fighting, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

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

  Chad Harbach

  Sports, Hate, Way

  "Fielding Questions on The Art of Fielding" by Joshua Lars Weill, www.gq.com. September 2, 2011.

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• There are three stages: Thoughtless being. Thought. Return to thoughtless being.

  Chad Harbach

  Three, Return, Stage

  Chad Harbach, Darran McCann, Lily Tuck, Will Wiles, Evan Mandery (2012). “Fiction4theFuture: Free New Fiction”, p.22, HarperCollins UK

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• But people didn't forgive you for doing what felt right-that was the last thing they forgave you for.

  Chad Harbach

  Forgiveness, People, Forgiving

  Chad Harbach (2011). “The Art of Fielding: A Novel”, p.192, Hachette UK

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• 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

  Fun, Book, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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

  Alive, Someday, Human Condition

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• ... people loved to suffer, as long as the suffering made sense. Everybody suffered. The key was to choose the form of your suffering.

  Chad Harbach

  Keys, Long, People

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• I play American football every Saturday, which I find calming.

  Chad Harbach

  Football, Play, Calming

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• The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.

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  Form, Novel, Mediums

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• For many years I didn't have health insurance.

  Chad Harbach

  Years

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