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.

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.

A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.

when guns are outlawed only the outlaws will have guns.

Men strive for peace, but it is their enemies that give them strength, and I think if man no longer had enemies, he would have to invent them, for his strength only grows from struggle.

A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting.

A man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he's never been any place or done anything.