Chad Harbach Quotes

• I’ve been a Brewers fan since birth.

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• I think people have the wrong idea of ‘Moby Dick’ as this somber, boring thing.

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

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

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

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• American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be described and traced through it.

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• I feel like every time I start up, it’s like a truck you have to get into 15th gear, so you very solely crank into that mental space where you feel really immersed in the world of the book and then you can just kind of go. But there’s just that few days of frustration to get to that point.

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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.

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• A moment would come, and then another, and then another. These moments would be his life.

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• The problem, like most problems in life, probably had to do with his footwork.

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

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• So much of one’s life was spent reading; it made sense not to do it alone.

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Chad Harbach (32)

Birth:	1975
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Editor, Writer

About

Chad Harbach is an American writer. An editor at the journal n + 1, he is the author of the 2011 novel The Art of Fielding. Harbach grew up in Racine, Wisconsin. His father was an accountant and his mother the head of a Montessori school. Harbach graduated from Harvard University, where he became friendly with fellow writers and journalists Keith Gessen and Benjamin Kunkel. He received an MFA from the University of Virginia.

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