“... people loved to suffer, as long as the suffering made sense. Everybody suffered. The key was to choose the form of your suffering.” PeopleLongMadeFormSufferingKeys Author:Chad Harbach
“The effects of MFA programs, and the rise of creative writing instruction more generally, are far more diffuse than people think. Even if you're a writer who has avoided institutions your whole life, you're still going to be reading a lot of writers who have MFAs, and are affiliated with universities.” PeopleIfsThinkingWritingStillsWholeReadingCreativeEffectsProgramInstitutionsUniversityWhole LifeInstructionCreative WritingAvoided Author:Chad Harbach
“If you're part of any kind of writerly community, some of those people will have gone through MFA programs, and their thinking leaks into yours. So whatever changes MFAs have made to the culture, it's to the culture as a whole. It can't be pinned down to individual books in a way that some people would like to do.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayKindMadeBookWholeCultureIndividualCommunityGoneProgramLeaks Author:Chad Harbach
“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.” PeopleNeedsImportantEnoughDoorsFeetStartingPublishingStarting Out Author:Chad Harbach
“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.” PeopleThinkingWritingFeelingsSportsHoursInterestingGroupsTeamWindIntensePeculiarQuartersVery InterestingPlaying SportsIntense Feelings Author:Chad Harbach
“I'm just kind of really interested in athletes as artists of a pretty serious variety and people who devote themselves to what they do in a really incredible way.” PeopleWayKindArtistSeriousIncrediblesAthleteVariety Author:Chad Harbach
“People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite.” PeopleFactsBecomingAdultsConsequenceOppositesBecoming An Adult Author:Chad Harbach
“But people didn't forgive you for doing what felt right-that was the last thing they forgave you for.” PeopleLastsFeltForgivenessForgiving Book:The Art of Fielding: A Novel Source: The Art of Fielding: A Novel
“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.” PeopleFirstsMeanEnoughStoriesTeachSupportOne ThingThese DaysShort StoryPublishingAmyTobiasStory Writers Author:Chad Harbach
