A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“I wished I had a book. It had been so long since I had read. Could a man forget how to read?” — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“Reading without thinking is nothing, for a book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.” — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“Must one seek something? I seek to be seeking, as I learn to be learning. Each book is an adventure as is… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
I do not believe writers should read reviews of their own books, and I do not. If one is not careful one… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Books are the building blocks of civilization and a people without books are a people without history, a people with no story… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
I have read my books by many lights, hoarding their beauty, their wit or wisdom against the dark days when I would… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
A book is valuable not only for what it says but for what it makes you think, or causes you to remember.… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
If you write a book about a bygone period that lies east of the Mississippi River, then it's a historical novel. If… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
If you write a book set in the past about something that happened east of the Mississippi, it's a 'historical novel.' If… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
The only power source a book needs is you. If you have to leave for a few minutes you have not lost… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Today you can buy the Dialogues of Plato for less than you would spend on a fifth of whiskey, or Gibbon's Decline… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Books are the perfect Time Machine. By the simple act of opening a book you can, in an instant, be travelling up… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Do you wish to learn? There are books that can teach you anything, and there is no cheaper form of education, nor… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
We are, finally, all wanderers in search of knowledge. Most of us hold the dream of becoming something better than we are, something larger,… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share
Out here you better have a gun, and a gun in the wagon ain't good for nothin'. I believe what the old Quaker said,… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share
“I will go with you, and when you make your camp, I will cook your meat, and when you wish to sleep, I will… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share
Men strive for peace, but it is their enemies that give them strength, and I think if man no longer had enemies, he would… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share
“Destarte! How musical! What does it mean?” “You can’t say it except in Mescalero. It means Morning, but that isn’t what it means, either.… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share
“Must one seek something? I seek to be seeking, as I learn to be learning. Each book is an adventure as is each day’s… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share
A man in his life may have many teachers, some most unexpected. The question lies with the man himself: Will he learn from them? — Louis L'Amour Copy Share
“Like I say, I killed a man or two but I'm no thief. My ma raised me better.” — Louis L'Amour Copy Share
