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
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- I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant. – Louis LAmour
- Fiction writers, magicians, politicians and priests are the only people rewarded for entertaining us with their lies – Bangambiki Habyarimana
- A journey is time suspended. – Louis LAmour
- Browsing through the shelves in bookstores or libraries, I was completely happy. – Louis LAmour
- Personally, I do not believe the human mind has any limits but those we impose ourselves. – Louis LAmour
- Because a man plays a king superbly well does not mean that he would make a good king. – Louis LAmour
- Many a small man is considered good while he remains small, but let power come to him, and he becomes a raging fury. – Louis LAmour
- Our world is made up of a myriad of microcosms, of tiny worlds, each with its own habitues, every one known to the others. – Louis LAmour
- …he’d had the foresight to know that a lot of the savages wear store-bought clothes. – Louis LAmour
- When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is. – Louis LAmour
- The wealthy and satisfied do not migrate, they stagnate. – Louis LAmour
- If you want the law to leave you alone, keep your hair trimmed and your boots shined. – Louis LAmour
- There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. – 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
- Never can tell when you might come on somebody needs skinning. – 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
- 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
- Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone. – 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
- I’ve a regard for law, although I do not always agree with it. Without law, man becomes a beast. – Louis LAmour
- It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy. – Louis LAmour
- A murder was never about brawn, it began and ended in the brain and the brain could justify anything. – Louise Penny
- To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians in the House of Life. Without you, this writer would be lost in the Dust. – Rick Riordan
- Books are … companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print. – Barbara W Tuchman
- An Enforcer’s style is to destroy all magicians in sight and lap up their essence like a starved cur. – Lita Burke
- Being in home is like magic moments, in a magic world, among magicians. – Durgesh Satpathy
- All the magicians have 52 mutual friends. – Amit Kalantri
- I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers. – Brian Selznick
- Wizard’s work was a pleasure and a madness. No wonder the university magicians rambled at times like daft bastards. – Lita Burke
- It seemed that it was not only live magicians which Mr. Norrell despised. He had taken the measure of all the dead ones too and found them wanting. – Susanna Clarke
- If we are to wield great magic, then let us learn from great teachers: the alchemists — magicians par excellence. – Lawren Leo
- I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians. – Francis Ford Coppola
- Magicians and Mentalist predict the future because they create it. – Amit Kalantri
- Children and babies should be held in the most sacred regard. We feel that they’re the most natural and true magicians. – Zeena Schreck
- Our culture will stand in roaring ovations for the illusionists, escape artists, and magicians. Deception is everything opposite the truth. – Billy Graham
- I tip my hat to the new constitution, I take a bow for the new revolution, smile and grin at the change all around me. – The Who
- A politician is a politician whether he’s wearing a suit or a funny hat. – Reza Aslan
- Kadafi is a zombie in a pillbox hat, that’s what he is! – Bill Maher
- A check girl in peach-bloom Chinese pajamas came over to take my hat and disapprove of my clothes. She had eyes like strange sins. – Raymond Chandler
- What deep violence does the mind invent / As polar opposite to love. (In ‘Hat Love’). – Tony Williams