Ben Fountain Quotes
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America is one big maill with a country attached to it.
— Ben Fountain
Is this what they mean by courage? Simple doing all the things you were trained to do, albeit everything at once and very fast.
— Ben Fountain
I never listen to music when I'm writing.
— Ben Fountain
Fake it till you make it, he reminds himself. This is how he's survived Army life so far.
— Ben Fountain
Don't be scared, Shroom said. Because you're going to be scared. So when you start to get scared, don't be scared.
— Ben Fountain
I realized I was never going to have any peace with myself unless I made an honest stab at trying to write.
— Ben Fountain
No country that lets its leaders lie like that deserves a single soldier to die for it." She
— Ben Fountain
'Late bloomer' is another way of saying 'slow learner.'
— Ben Fountain
money shaves off a good ten years.
— Ben Fountain
As if sorrow is the true reality? Without ever putting his mind to it, he's come to believe that loss is the standard trajectory.
— Ben Fountain
The Kessler Theater is one such gem, an Art Deco beauty ... for a slice of real life, there's always the Kessler.
— Ben Fountain
I think sometimes nothing is better than something. I mean, I'd rather have nothing than let this guy use me like his bitch.
— Ben Fountain
It's amazing what happens when you stick yourself in a place and let things take their more or less natural course.
— Ben Fountain
It took me 10 years to write a story that pleased me - that I could look at after it was published and not cringe.
— Ben Fountain
The Revolution had reached that classic mature stage where it existed only for its own sake.
— Ben Fountain
Next thing she knows she's lying flat on her back and three grizzled Mexicans are standing over her, trying
— Ben Fountain
If you could figure out how to live with family then you'd gone a long way toward finding your peace.
— Ben Fountain
If a bullet's going to get you, it's already been fired.
— Ben Fountain
By the end of the first decade of writing, I considered myself a confirmed failure in the eyes of the world.
— Ben Fountain
The main thing about writing is ... writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work.
— Ben Fountain
have you not had your morning glass of shut up?
— Ben Fountain
Let me just say, we call Iraq the abnormal normal, 'cause over there the weirdest stuff is just everyday life.
— Ben Fountain
Society may not need you, strictly speaking, but some sort of use can usually be found.
— Ben Fountain
It's going to be a long, lonesome eleven months in Iraq, long and lonesome being the best-case scenario
— Ben Fountain
Maybe the light's at the other end of the tunnel.
— Ben Fountain
