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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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Broken Hill
Wilbur Addison Smith
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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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I have never had too much trouble for creative ideas to spring up in my mind.
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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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Litigation only makes lawyers fat.
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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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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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History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.
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beware of your most implacable enemy-yourself.
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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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I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.
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I put my soul into every book I write.
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I love the sea as much as I love the veldt of Africa.
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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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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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There's nothing so aphrodisiacal for a woman as money and success.
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I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background.
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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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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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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 want to be seen as a good storyteller. I'm a manipulator as well.
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