Louis L'Amour
Louis L'Amour
Louis Dearborn L'Amourwas an American novelist and short story writer. His books consisted primarily of Western novels; however, he also wrote historical fiction, science fiction, non-fiction, as well as poetry and short-story collections. Many of his stories were made into film. L'Amour's books remain popular and most have gone through multiple printings. At the time of his death almost all of his 105 existing workswere still in print, and he was considered "one of the world's most popular writers"...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 March 1908
CityJamestown, ND
A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings.
I have read my books by many lights, hoarding their beauty, their wit or wisdom against the dark days when I would have no book, nor a place to read. I have known hunger of the belly kind many times over, but I have known a worse hunger: the need to know and to learn.
violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble.
The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.
No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.
No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.
What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life.
Victory is not won in miles but in inches.
Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on
No matter how much I admire our schools, I know that no university exists that can provide an education; what a university can provide is an outline, to give the learner a direction and guidance. The rest one has to do for oneself.
Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.
A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.
There is no man more dangerous than one who does not doubt his own rightness.
Dogma is invariably wrong, as knowledge is always in a state of transition.