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Louis L'Amour [1908-1988] American

Rank: 101
Author, Novelist

Louis Dearborn L'Amour was 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.

Alone, Anger, Education, Faith, Good, History, Knowledge, Men, Time, Travel, Women, Work

Quote	Tags	Rank
A good beginning makes a good end.	Good	101
To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.	Work	102
No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.	Alone	103
For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.	History, Time	104
Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.		105
All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I.		106
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning.		107
I think it's time that we have a women's show about the West. The concentration has been on the men and the Indians.	Men, Women	108
Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.	Anger	109
Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.		110
A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.		111
I start with a character and a situation, but I don't know what's going to happen until I write it. Sometimes things happen that surprise me.		112
I think of myself... as a troubadour, a village storyteller, the guy in the shadows of the campfire.		113
If you write a book about a bygone period that lies east of the Mississippi River, then it's a historical novel. If it's west of the Mississippi, it's a western, a different category. There's no sense to it.		114
He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.		115
No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.	Education	116
To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.	Faith	117
Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.		118
Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.	Knowledge	119
I'm actually writing history. It isn't what you'd call big history. I don't write about presidents and generals... I write about the man who was ranching, the man who was mining, the man who was opening up the country.		120
I don't travel and tell stories, because that's not the way these days. But I write my books to be read aloud, and I think of myself in that oral tradition.	Travel	121

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