For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“Browsing through the shelves in bookstores or libraries, I was completely happy.” — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
I think of myself... as a troubadour, a village storyteller, the guy in the shadows of the campfire. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
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… — 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
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
Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you. — 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
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
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
Our libraries are not cloisters for an elite. They are for the people, and if they are not used, the fault belongs… — 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
I start with a character and a situation, but I don't know what's going to happen until I write it. Sometimes things… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
I think of myself in the oral tradition-as a troubadour, a village tale-teller, the man in the shadows of the campfire. That's… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
I don't travel and tell stories, because that's not the way these days. But I write my books to be read aloud,… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
I have told many, yet when I go down that last trail, I know there will be a thousand stories hammering at… — 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
Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. If one really wants to learn, one… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. In the one year during which I… — 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
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
“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
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
“Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. In the one year during which I… — 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
A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think. — 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
I had begun reading earlier than most because my sister Emmy Lou, no doubt to keep me from bothering her, decided it… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
If you're going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing… — 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
“It is often said that one has but one life to live, but that is nonsense. For one who reads, there is… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“If you play games with men,” he replied, “you’ll play by men’s rules.” — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“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 Image
