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
The only power source a book needs is you. If you have to leave for a few minutes you have not lost the story. It is waiting for you when you return. You can pick up a book and resume reading at any time, after a few minutes, a few days, even a few years. A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting.
My future is one I must make myself.
Do not let yourself be bothered by the inconsequential. One has only so much time in this world, so devote it to the work and the people most important to you, to those you love and things that matter. One can waste half a lifetime with people one doesn't really like, or doing things when one would be better off somewhere else.
Mountains should not be judged by altitude.
Dogma is invariably wrong, as knowledge is always in a state of transition.
The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.
A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge, and it ain't worth it.
A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first.
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.
It is an old custom of these people to pick up a stone and toss it on the pile. Perhaps it is a symbolical lightening of the load they carry, perhaps a small offering to the gods of the trails.
At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure will be seen.
When feeding time comes around, there is nothing a hawk likes better than a nice, fat, peaceful dove.
What is today accepted as truth will tomorrow prove to be only amusing.