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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.

From Chad Harbach

Tall people have a real advantage in the world.

From Chad Harbach

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.

From Chad Harbach

I was a ballplayer, but only for a limited time. I grew up playing in Wisconsin. It's a very sports-centric part of the country that I grew up in and I played a lot of sports, but baseball first and foremost. I played through high school. I was a middle-infielder.

From Chad Harbach

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

From Chad Harbach

I've earned my living in all sorts of terrible ways - as a janitor, a copy editor, a psychotherapist.

From Chad Harbach

You know, it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money.

From Chad Harbach

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

From Chad Harbach

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

From Chad Harbach

When I write for 'n+1,' I begin by doing a lot of reading, to try to convince myself I'm not stupid. Then I scribble down a paragraph here, a paragraph there, when a notion strikes. Then I see if I can arrange those notions in a way that yields an argument.

From Chad Harbach

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