“It's very hard right now to be a pro sports fan. The economics of this stuff is abysmal.” Quote by Chad Harbach
“Most writers, most books, you have no idea whether it was a dollar or a million dollars.” BookIdeasMillionsDollarsNo IdeaMillion Dollars Author:Chad Harbach
“I tended to write the book in these bursts of two or three months at a time. So I would know, or at least feel securely, that for the next few months I was at least going to have a few hours a day.” KnowsFeelsWritingTwoBookThreeNextHoursMonthsThree Months Author:Chad Harbach
“For me, the process always has to be pretty intense. I could never write just two or three days a week. It had to be every day.” WritingTwoThreeProcessWeekIntense Author:Chad Harbach
“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.” WorldFeelsKindBookSpaceTruckGearsCrank Author:Chad Harbach
“Another older writer that had a huge influence on me is Chekhov. More contemporarily, it's hard to say.” HardInfluenceHugeChekhov Author:Chad Harbach
“I do think that sports is really rich dramatically that, and this is kind of a self-serving thing to say, but I wonder why there aren't more, better sports novels.” ThinkingKindSelfSportsWonderNovelRichServingSelf Serving Author:Chad Harbach
“My favorite sports novel is End Zone by Delillo. It's such a great looking book too, the black cover with the football player on it. It's just a fantastic little book.” LittlesBookEndsSportsBlackNovelPlayerFootballMy FavoriteFantasticZoneFootball PlayerFavorite Sports 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
“Growing up in the church in West Virginia, faith is always there. It's part of the fabric of the culture.” CultureChurchGrowing UpGrowingWestFabricVirginiaWest Virginia Author:DeVon Franklin