Louis L'Amour

Born 22 March 1908 · Died 10 June 1988

From Jamestown, North Dakota, United States · Nationality: United States · Writes fiction

Louis Dearborn L'Amour was an American author. His books consisted primarily of Western fiction novels (though he called his work 'Frontier Stories'), however he also wrote historical fiction (The Walking Drum), science fiction (The Haunted Mesa), nonfiction (Frontier), as well as poetry and short-story collections.

Quotes

“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning.”
Lonely on the Mountain 1980 ; later quoted in A Trail of Memories : The Quotati
“I sat very still, as befitted a small boy among strangers, staring wide-eyed into a world I did not know. I was six years old and my father was dying.”
The Lonesome Gods, Chapter 1
“A knife is sharpened on stone, steel is tempered by fire, but men must be sharpened by men.”
The Walking Drum, Chapter 57
“It is often said that one has but one life to live, but that is nonsense. For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.”
Education of a Wandering Man, Chapter 1
“A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.”
Education of a Wandering Man, Chapter 10