Famous Louis LAmour Quotes

  • 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 LAmour

    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 LAmour

  • I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant. – Louis LAmour

    I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.– Louis LAmour

  • It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy. – Louis LAmour

    It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy.– Louis LAmour

  • I’ve a regard for law, although I do not always agree with it. Without law, man becomes a beast. – Louis LAmour

    I’ve a regard for law, although I do not always agree with it. Without law, man becomes a beast.– Louis LAmour

  • violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble. – Louis LAmour

    violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble.– Louis LAmour

  • Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone. – Louis LAmour

    Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.– Louis LAmour

  • Someone has said that culture is what remains with you after you have forgotten all you have read, and I believe there is much truth in that. – Louis LAmour

    Someone has said that culture is what remains with you after you have forgotten all you have read, and I believe there is much truth in that.– Louis LAmour

  • …if we are to become a land of homes and people, evil men must not be allowed to persist in their evil. – Louis LAmour

    …if we are to become a land of homes and people, evil men must not be allowed to persist in their evil.– Louis LAmour

  • Never can tell when you might come on somebody needs skinning. – Louis LAmour

    Never can tell when you might come on somebody needs skinning.– Louis LAmour

  • Now, tomorrow Miss Laurie McCrae and me, we have an appointment with a sky pilot who will make it proper for us to travel in double harness. – Louis LAmour

    Now, tomorrow Miss Laurie McCrae and me, we have an appointment with a sky pilot who will make it proper for us to travel in double harness.– Louis LAmour