Louis L'Amour Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child’s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself.

  Louis L'Amour

  Teacher, Children, Book

• Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.

  Louis L'Amour

  Teacher, Memories, Book

• A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

  Louis L'Amour

  Book, Thinking, Make You Think

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.101, Bantam

• A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.

  Louis L'Amour

  Teacher, Reading, Book

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

  Louis L'Amour

  Book, Waiting, Forever

• Do you wish to learn? There are books that can teach you anything, and there is no cheaper form of education, nor one whose effects are more lasting. My education came from books, and they have been my companions by many campfires, in bunkhouses, ships' forecastles, in hotels and on planes. No matter where you find me, I am never far from a book.

  Louis L'Amour

  Book, Learning, Wish

• Books are the building blocks of civilization and a people without books are a people without history, a people with no story older than the tales of the oldest man or woman.

  Louis L'Amour

  Block, Book, Men

• The only power source a book needs is you. If you have to leave for a few minutes you have not lost the story. It is waiting for you when you return. You can pick up a book and resume reading at any time, after a few minutes, a few days, even a few years. A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting.

  Louis L'Amour

  Time, Book, Reading

• Books are the perfect Time Machine. By the simple act of opening a book you can, in an instant, be travelling up a jungle river without once being bitten by mosquitoes, or you can almost die of thirst in the desert while holding a cold drink in your hand, or dine in the finest restaurants and never have to worry about paying the bill, or ride the wild country of our western frontier and never worry about losing your scalp to a raiding party.

  Louis L'Amour

  Country, Time, Party

• 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.

  Louis L'Amour

  Book, Thinking, Make You Think

• Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Book

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “Matagorda: A Novel”, p.108, Bantam

• I have read my books by many lights, hoarding their beauty, their wit or wisdom against the dark days when I would have no book, nor a place to read. I have known hunger of the belly kind many times over, but I have known a worse hunger: the need to know and to learn.

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  Book, Dark, Light

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.82, Bantam

• One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend.

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  Book, Ideas, Giving

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.12, Bantam

• 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.

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  Book, Writing, Past

• Today you can buy the Dialogues of Plato for less than you would spend on a fifth of whiskey, or Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire for the price of a cheap shirt. You can buy a fair beginning of an education in any bookstore with a good stock of paperback books for less than you would spend on a week's supply of gasoline.

  Louis L'Amour

  Plato, Book, Fall

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.11, Bantam

• Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it all hangs, and they can save us when all else is lost.

  Louis L'Amour

  Strong, Book, Civilization

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

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  Determination, Book, Ideas

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.11, Bantam

• Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own brief years and, perhaps, in a few tales his parents tell him.

  Louis L'Amour

  Block, Book, Men

• I do not believe writers should read reviews of their own books, and I do not. If one is not careful one is soon writing to please reviewers and not their audience or themselves.

  Louis L'Amour

  Believe, Book, Writing

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