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. Louis L'Amour More Quotes by Louis L'Amour More Quotes From Louis L'Amour 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. Louis L'Amour girl morning children Throw a rock into a pack of dogs, the one that yelps the loudest is usually the one that got hit. Louis L'Amour packs rocks dog It is an old custom of these people to pick up a stone and toss it on the pile. Perhaps it is a symbolical lightening of the load they carry, perhaps a small offering to the gods of the trails. Louis L'Amour hiking offering journey I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen. Louis L'Amour tomorrow lifetime waiting I do not like violence, but ours is a violent time, and there are some men who understand nothing else. Louis L'Amour violent violence men 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. Louis L'Amour home adventure people When at the typewriter I am no longer where I site but am away across the mountains, in ancient cities or on the Great Plains among the buffalo. Often I think of what pitiful fools are those who use mind-altering drugs to seek feelings they do not have, each drug taking a little more from what they have of mind, leaving them a little less. Give the brain encouragement from study, from thinking, from visualizing, and no drugs are needed. Louis L'Amour encouragement typewriters thinking Actors, politicians, and writers-all of us are but creatures of the hour. Long-lasting fame comes to but few. Louis L'Amour politician actors long If you want to be creative, go where your questions lead you. Louis L'Amour creativity creative want The way I see it, every time a man gets up in the morning he starts his life over. Sure, the bills are there to pay, and the job is there to do, but you don't have to stay in a pattern. You can always start over, saddle a fresh horse and take another trail. Louis L'Amour horse morning jobs Knowledge is awareness, and to it are many paths, not all of them paved with logic. But sometimes one is guided through the maze by intuition. One is led by something felt on the wind, something seen in the stars, something that calls from the wasteland to the spirit. Louis L'Amour rainy-day stars wind When you go to a country, you must learn how to say two things: how to ask for food, and to tell a woman that you love her. Of these the second is more important, for if you tell a woman you love her, she will certainly feed you. Louis L'Amour important two country Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic. Louis L'Amour logic awareness path 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. Louis L'Amour hats brain firsts I don't believe you know anything about a man like me or a country like this. It takes rough men, Miss Fair, to tame a rough country; rough men, but good men. Your father is in that class. As for you, I don't think you'd measure up, and you'll do well to leave it. You're a hothouse flower, very soft, very appealing and very useless...In the world you are going to, men want pretty useless women. They want toys for their lighte moments, and we have those women out here, too, only we have another name for them. We want women who can make a home, and if need be, handle a rifle. Louis L'Amour believe country father Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own brief years and, perhaps, in a few tales his parents tell him. Louis L'Amour block men book Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware. Louis L'Amour incentives adversity enemy If you write a book set in the past about something that happened east of the Mississippi, it's a 'historical novel.' If you write about something that took place west of the Mississippi, it's a 'Western'- and somehow regarded as a lesser work. I write historical novels about the frontier. Louis L'Amour writing book past What can the will do when the heart commands? Louis L'Amour command heart Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you. Louis L'Amour motivational inspirational book
