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
Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.
Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is violence they want and neither truth nor freedom.
It is better to have no emotion when it is work. Do what needs to be done, and do it coolly.
This-this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's voice. . . a moment of captured beauty. Those who are truly wise will never permit such moments to escape.
The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.
Men strive for peace, but it is their enemies that give them strength, and I think if man no longer had enemies, he would have to invent them, for his strength only grows from struggle.
I am somebody. I am me. And I don't need anybody to make me somebody.
One never realizes how much and how little he knows until he starts talking.
Sometimes we have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have to grow to meet it.
Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow.
Mountains should not be judged by altitude.
To die is nothing. One is here, one is no longer here. It is only at the end one must be able to say 'I was a man'.
A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind.
Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble. It sounds swell when you write about it, but it's hell when you meet it face to face in a dark and lonely place.