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Ben Fountain

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If you could figure out how to live with family then you'd gone a long way toward finding your peace.


— Ben Fountain


#family

Let me just say, we call Iraq the abnormal normal, 'cause over there the weirdest stuff is just everyday life.


— Ben Fountain


#life

It is sort of weird being honored for the worst day of your life.


— Ben Fountain


#honor #humility #life

'Late bloomer' is another way of saying 'slow learner.'


— Ben Fountain


#another way #bloomer #late #late bloomer #learner

I never listen to music when I'm writing.


— Ben Fountain


#listen #music #never #writing

The main thing about writing is... writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work.


— Ben Fountain


#chair #doing #down #main #main thing

I think if you spend much time dwelling on influence you can get self-conscious about every line you write. That's a great way to freeze up.


— Ben Fountain


#dwelling #every #freeze #get #great

I'm ashamed and embarrassed to say that I've read very little of David Foster Wallace's work. It's a huge gap in my education, one of many.


— Ben Fountain


#david #education #embarrassed #foster #gap






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Henry Award[citation needed]
2007 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for Brief Encounters with Che Guevara[citation needed]
2007 Whiting Writers Award
2012 National Book Award (fiction) finalist Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
2012 Specsavers National Book Awards International Author of the Year shortlist for Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
2012 Good Reads Choice Awards 2012 Best Fiction finalist for Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
2012 Flaherty-Dunnan Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
2013 National Book Critics Circle Award (fiction) Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize 2012 (fiction) finalist Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk


Bibliography
Brief Encounters With Che Guevara
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk. in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1980 and a law degree from the Duke University School of Law in 1983. S.

Ben Fountain (b. He was won many awards including a PEN/Hemingway award for Brief Encounters with Che Guevara) and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction for his debut novel Billy Lynn's Long Half-Time Walk.

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