I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on — 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
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
Actors, politicians, and writers-all of us are but creatures of the hour. Long-lasting fame comes to but few. — 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
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
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
One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, and my daughter - who was a child at the time - asked… — 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
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… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“My greatest complaint with present-day sexual writing is that nobody seems to be having any fun. Sex is an ordeal, or it… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble. It sounds swell when you write about it, but it's hell when you meet… — 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
