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I have never had too much trouble for creative ideas to spring up in my mind.

Wilbur Smith

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Wilbur Smith
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: January 9
Mathematician
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Broken Hill
Wilbur Addison Smith
Creative
Ideas
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Never
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Trouble

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I put my soul into every book I write.
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I go on a hunting safari at least once a year to Botswana, which is fantastic because we have a huge area of wilderness entirely to ourselves. My island covers roughly 55 acres, which again I have to myself, with nearly half a kilometre of private beach with my own jetties and boats.
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I know it's politically incorrect but I enjoy things like the kick boxing and cock fighting.
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I shot my first lion at the age of 14 when a pride threatened my father's livestock while he was away on holiday.
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My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench.
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It's probably true that everyone has a book in them, although it may not be a very good one.
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I am a closet birdwatcher. I can identify Southern African species, but it irks me I can barely tell a jay from a blackbird in the U.K.
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I don't want children. Why should I let some strange little monster into my life to destroy what to me is a perfect set-up?
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The best cure for racism is to have somebody shoot at you. Man, it does not matter then what color the arse is that comes to save yours-black or white, you're ready to give it a big fat kiss.
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I write my books in my head, and not in a specific study with a view. The view is from my inner eyes.
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Litigation only makes lawyers fat.
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Politicians all over the world cater to domestic vote banks. They will spend only on what their constituents want. So unless there is a grass root green movement in a nation the politicians will not be willing to spend money on curbing emissions. More awareness is needed amongst the people to effect the real change in how governments spend.
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I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.
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You don't turn out as many books as I did then by sitting around, being cozy with the family.
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What I like about writing is the sense of godlike power it gives you.
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You know that feeling when you finish a final exam and you think, 'I never want to do that again'? Well I have the same feeling when I finish a novel. Each time I say, 'I think I may retire now' and then after six months the ideas start to churn again. I could never stop.
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Quite frankly, I think political correctness is the worst form of censorship. You're not allowed to speak your mind unless you're black, or unless you're a terrorist, or unless you're an Arab or a minority people. Then you can say what you like. But if you are like a lot of us you are not supposed to say certain things.
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A cynic had defined aid as simply the system by which poor white people in rich countries gave money to rich black people in poor countries to put into Swiss bank accounts.
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I grew up in Rhodesia on my father's ranch and every year he used to take us on safari in some remote area of the wilderness.
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Herbert, my father, was born in Britain but went out to Africa in his teens to join his father and built up an 18,000-acre ranch in what was then Northern Rhodesia, providing work for the locals. He was my hero when I was a boy.
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