American - Author | March 22, 1908 - June 10, 1988
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning.
Louis L'Amour
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Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.
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To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.
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Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. In the one year during which I kept that kind of record, I read twenty-five books while waiting for people. In offices, applying for jobs, waiting to see a dentist, waiting in a restaurant for friends, many such places.
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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.
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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.
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I had begun reading earlier than most because my sister Emmy Lou, no doubt to keep me from bothering her, decided it was easier to teach me to read stories to myself rather than to read them to me, as she had been doing.
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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.
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No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.
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He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.
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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.
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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.
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