Chad Harbach Quotes

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

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  Tags in Football, Saturday

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

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  Topics in Health

  Tags in Insurance, Many

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

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  Tags in Fiction, Involve

• 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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  Tags in Racial, Bound

• 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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  Tags in Solely, Every Time

• 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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  Topics in Love

  Tags in People

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

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Moment

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

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Problem

• It remained an open question, how much sympathy love could stand.

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  Tags in Question

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

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  Tags in People

• A soul isn’t something a person is born with but something that must be built, by effort and error, study and love.

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  Topics in Soul

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

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  Tags in Reading

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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