Louis LAmour Quotes - Page 6

Have faith in God but keep your powder dry.

Trail dust is thicker'n blood.

What people speak of as adventure is something nobody in his right mind would seek out, and it becomes romantic only when one is safely at home.

Dogma is invariably wrong, as knowledge is always in a state of transition.

A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.

I have told many, yet when I go down that last trail, I know there will be a thousand stories hammering at my skull, demanding to be told.

No man is lost while he yet lives.

How long is a girl a child? She is a child, and then one morning you wake up she's a woman, and a dozen different people of whom you recognize none.

I do not believe writers should read reviews of their own books, and I do not. If one is not careful one is soon writing to please reviewers and not their audience or themselves.

One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, and my daughter - who was a child at the time - asked me, "Daddy, why are you writing so fast?" And I replied, "Because I want to see how the story turns out!

... the mind must be prepared for knowledge as one prepares a field for planting, and a discovery made too soon is no better than a discovery not made at all.

The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand.

Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.

Today you can buy the Dialogues of Plato for less than you would spend on a fifth of whiskey, or Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire for the price of a cheap shirt. You can buy a fair beginning of an education in any bookstore with a good stock of paperback books for less than you would spend on a week's supply of gasoline.

What can the will do when the heart commands?

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 in it first.

The dancer becomes the dance. And I am the writing.

Adventure is nothing but a romantic name for trouble.

You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it.

Being scared can keep a man from getting killed, and often makes a better fighter out of him.

Caution always, but when a man acts he should act suddenly and with decision.

Actors, politicians, and writers-all of us are but creatures of the hour. Long-lasting fame comes to but few.

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.

After a few days, I mused, I would have no trouble. Whoever heard of a revolution of fat men?

A book is valuable not only for what it says but for what it makes you think, or causes you to remember. No matter what you wish to do or become there are books to teach you, help you, guide you.