Writing on a computer feels like a recipe for writer's block. I can type so fast that I run out of thoughts, and then I sit there and look at the words on the screen, and move them around, and never get anywhere. Whereas in a notebook I just keep plodding along, slowly, accumulating sentences, sometimes even surprising myself.

Somehow, you can achieve a directness in the novel that you can't get anywhere else.

The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.

Chad Harbach Quotes