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 good beginning makes a good end.
A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it.
Being scared can keep a man from getting killed, and often makes a better fighter out of him.
Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on
Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.
If you wait for inspiration, you're not a writer, but a waiter.
I am somebody. I am me. And I don't need anybody to make me somebody.
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning.
Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.
What is second sight? A gift? A training? Or is it simply that suddenly within the brain a thousand impressions, ideas, sights, sounds, and smells coincide to provide an impression of what is to be? The mind gathers its grain in all fields, storing i
He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.
I never figured it was a cowardly thing to be scared. It's to be scared and still face up to what scares you that matters.
What people speak of as adventure is something nobody in his right mind would seek out, and it becomes romantic only when one is safely at home.
Caution always, but when a man acts he should act suddenly and with decision.