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I put my soul into every book I write.
Wilbur Smith
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Wilbur Smith
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: January 9
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Broken Hill
Wilbur Addison Smith
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History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.
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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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They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy-just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it.
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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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Authors can only soft sell the environment. Create a wonderful story around the environment involving the characters that leaves a lasting impression on the reader's mind.
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Sometimes it is best for men not to attempt to interfere with destiny. Our prayers can be answered in ways which we do not expect and do not welcome.
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My family wasn't terribly affluent and looked upon money very carefully as something that had to be saved, not spent. My father built the ducting that took air into the copper mines and made about 6 d a yard in the Thirties, which was good money back then.
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Litigation only makes lawyers fat.
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I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight, my parents sent me to a boarding school in South Africa. It was the equivalent of a British public school with cold showers, beatings and rotten food. But what it also had was a library full of books.
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Let it simply be said that we know more about the details of the hours immediately before and the actual death of Jesus, in and near Jerusalem, than we know about the death of any other one man in all the ancient world.
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Usually halfway through a book I have a serious depression, so I go on safari on my ranch in South Africa, or fishing off my island in the Seychelles. When I come back and re-read it, I think: 'What was all that about, Smith? It's fine, just get on with it.'
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I read all of Rider Haggard's books. For me he had the romance of Africa with a little bit of mysticism. I'm delighted to be looked on as his heir and be categorised as an adventure novelist because that's exactly what I am.
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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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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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At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's 'Introduction To Modern English And American Literature.' To this day I keep it on the shelf between my collection of Forester's works and the little urn that contains my mother's ashes.
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All my characters have got a big slice of me in them. A big piece of me, because it's my dialogue and this is the way I think and talk.
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Cape Town's beaches are superb and while the water on the Atlantic side is damn cold, it's very pleasant on the other side. Bring your golf clubs if you play - Cape Town has some fabulous golf courses.
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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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I know it's politically incorrect but I enjoy things like the kick boxing and cock fighting.
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I want to be seen as a good storyteller. I'm a manipulator as well.
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