Ben Fountain Quotes

A collection of quotes by Ben Fountain.

Ben Fountain is an American author born in 1958. He is best known for his critically acclaimed debut novel, "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk," which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 2012. Fountain's work often explores themes of war, politics, and American society. He has also written numerous short stories and essays, which have been published in prestigious literary magazines. N/A

I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the

I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and '70s - when the machine hadn't completely taken over life. The natural world was still the world, and machines - TV, telephone, cars - were still more or less ancillary, and computers were unheard of in everyday life.

Ben Fountain

Computers