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You don't turn out as many books as I did then by sitting around, being cozy with the family.
Wilbur Smith
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Wilbur Smith
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: January 9
Mathematician
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Broken Hill
Wilbur Addison Smith
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What I like about writing is the sense of godlike power it gives you.
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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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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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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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Litigation only makes lawyers fat.
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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 love the sea as much as I love the veldt of Africa.
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I want to be seen as a good storyteller. I'm a manipulator as well.
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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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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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Write for yourself, not for a perceived audience. If you do, you'll mostly fall flat on your face, because it's impossible to judge what people want. And you have to read. That's how you learn what is good writing and what is bad. Then the main thing is application. It's hard work.
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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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I'm not a prophet I can only use historical reality to come to a view of the future, and my view is that Africa will return to being African and not European. The advent of colonialism was foreign to the country itself, but it will return to what it was before the Europeans arrived.
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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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Failure makes success so much sweeter, and allows you to thumb your nose at the crowds.
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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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