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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
Mathematician
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Broken Hill
Wilbur Addison Smith
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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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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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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 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 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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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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beware of your most implacable enemy-yourself.
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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 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 have never had too much trouble for creative ideas to spring up in my mind.
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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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I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background.
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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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What I like about writing is the sense of godlike power it gives you.
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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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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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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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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 love the sea as much as I love the veldt of Africa.
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