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
If you want to be creative, go where your questions lead you.
You are your own best teacher. My advice is to question all things. Seek for answers, and when you find what seems to be an answer, question that, too.
Knowledge was meant to be shared.
I have been nothing... but there is tomorrow.
Adventure is nothing but a romantic name for trouble.
A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.
I fear there will be no future for those who do not change.
What can the will do when the heart commands?
The dancer becomes the dance. And I am the writing.
Knowledge is awareness, and to it are many paths, not all of them paved with logic. But sometimes one is guided through the maze by intuition. One is led by something felt on the wind, something seen in the stars, something that calls from the wasteland to the spirit.
Actors, politicians, and writers-all of us are but creatures of the hour. Long-lasting fame comes to but few.
There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.
It is better to have no emotion when it is work. Do what needs to be done, and do it coolly.
The one law that does not change is that everything changes, and the hardship I was bearing today was only a breath away from the pleasures I would have tomorrow, and those pleasures would be all the richer because of the memories of this I was enduring.