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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.

Wilbur Smith

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Wilbur Smith
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: January 9
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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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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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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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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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People don't really know themselves until they're 30. Like most people nowadays, I went to university, got a degree and wandered for a bit. I trained to be a chartered accountant, which I didn't much enjoy, and it was only slowly that the idea of becoming a creative writer gelled.
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I love the sea as much as I love the veldt of Africa.
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beware of your most implacable enemy-yourself.
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I put my soul into every book I write.
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Despite the fact that I spend a lot of time in London, Switzerland and New York, Africa is the place I know and love best, and my heart will always lie here.
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It's a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one to its full.
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Every time one of my books sells a million copies in paperback, Pan Macmillan gives me a gold statuette of Pan. I have about 20 of them.
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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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I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background.
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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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What I like about writing is the sense of godlike power it gives you.
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I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.
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I have never had too much trouble for creative ideas to spring up in my mind.
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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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Failure makes success so much sweeter, and allows you to thumb your nose at the crowds.
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