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
Knowledge was meant to be shared.
Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.
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.
Living a life is much like climbing mountains-the summits are always further off than you think, but when a man has a goal, he always feels he's working toward something.
A man in his life may have many teachers, some most unexpected. The question lies with the man himself: Will he learn from them?
What is today accepted as truth will tomorrow prove to be only amusing.
For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived.
The wind was cold off the mountains and I was a naked man with enemies behind me, and nothing before me but hope.
What a man wants to do he generally can do, if he wants to badly enough.
Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.
I do not believe writers should read reviews of their own books, and I do not. If one is not careful one is soon writing to please reviewers and not their audience or themselves.
Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember.
There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles -famine, disease and such-like -and some folks are born with money, some with none. In the end it is up to the man what he becomes, and none of those other things matters. It is character that counts.