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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.

Wilbur Smith

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Wilbur Smith
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: January 9
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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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You don't turn out as many books as I did then by sitting around, being cozy with the family.
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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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When I vacate this sack of old bones I won't care what you do with it. Bury or burn it but don't make much fuss.
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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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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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I want to be seen as a good storyteller. I'm a manipulator as well.
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I'm not a good father and they're not children any more the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers broke down and, because of what the law was, they went with their mothers and were imbued with their mothers' morality in life and they were not my people any more.
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There's nothing so aphrodisiacal for a woman as money and success.
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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 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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Litigation only makes lawyers fat.
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I love the sea as much as I love the veldt of Africa.
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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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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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The really disturbing thing about Somalia is that in a country where there are few economic opportunities, pirates are perceived as glamorous and are held in awe by young boys who aspire to their lifestyle.
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beware of your most implacable enemy-yourself.
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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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I put my soul into every book I write.
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