Excess Quotes by Ben Fountain

“The singing triggers a soft detonation at his core, molten parts of him are flying everywhere and his ears ring to the tune of…

— Ben Fountain

“Even harder was describing his sense that Shroom’s death might have ruined him for anything else, because when he died? when I felt his…

— Ben Fountain

“Without ever exactly putting his mind to it, he's come to believe that loss is standard trajectory. Something new appears in the world—a baby,…

— Ben Fountain

“But I am scared. Everybody's scared." "You know what I mean, like scared scared. Like coward scared, like if you never went to begin…

— Ben Fountain

“God knows the war sucks, but he sees no great appeal in these tepid peacetime lives.”

— Ben Fountain

“What he'd like to say is that he's lived it, if not the entire breadth and depth of the Christian faith then certainly the…

— 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

I started publishing stories in small magazines early on, but after seven or eight or nine years you feel like you need a little…

— 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

“No it was my choice. It's what I wanted to do. And I knew they'd probably send me to Iraq. It's not like anybody…

— 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

“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