I had begun reading earlier than most because my sister Emmy Lou, no doubt to keep me from bothering her, decided it was easier to teach me to read stories to myself rather than to read them to me, as she had been doing. Louis L'Amour Read Quote
If you write a book about a bygone period that lies east of the Mississippi River, then it’s a historical novel. If it’s west of the Mississippi, it’s a western, a different category. There’s no sense to it. Louis L'Amour Read Quote
I think it’s time that we have a women’s show about the West. The concentration has been on the men and the Indians. Louis L'Amour Read Quote
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. Louis L'Amour Read Quote
I’m actually writing history. It isn’t what you’d call big history. I don’t write about presidents and generals… I write about the man who was ranching, the man who was mining, the man who was opening up the country. Louis L'Amour Read Quote
No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process. Louis L'Amour Read Quote
I think of myself… as a troubadour, a village storyteller, the guy in the shadows of the campfire. Louis L'Amour Read Quote
He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go. Louis L'Amour Read Quote
I don’t travel and tell stories, because that’s not the way these days. But I write my books to be read aloud, and I think of myself in that oral tradition. Louis L'Amour Read Quote
