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
Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.
After a few days, I mused, I would have no trouble. Whoever heard of a revolution of fat men?
Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.
I do not like violence, but ours is a violent time, and there are some men who understand nothing else.
Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.
Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic.
The only thing that never changes is that everything changes.
Today is all we have, tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.
Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.
One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, and my daughter - who was a child at the time - asked me, "Daddy, why are you writing so fast?" And I replied, "Because I want to see how the story turns out!
. . . What do you wish to be? What would you like to become?” I did not know, and I told her so, but the question worried me. Should I know? “There is time,” she said, “but the sooner you know, the sooner you can plan. To have a goal is the important thing, and to work toward it. Then, if you decide you wish to do something different, you will at least have been moving, you will have been going somewhere, you will have been learning.
All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I.
I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.
Luck comes to a man who puts himself in the way of it. You went where something might be found and you found something, simple as that.