Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. If one really wants to learn, one has to decide what is important. Spending an evening on the town? Attending a ball game? Or learning something that can be with you your life long.
Louis L'AmourSometimes we have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have to grow to meet it.
Louis L'AmourI do not like violence, but ours is a violent time, and there are some men who understand nothing else.
Louis L'AmourTo die is nothing. One is here, one is no longer here. It is only at the end one must be able to say 'I was a man'.
Louis L'AmourIf 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