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Wilbur Smith Biography

Wilbur Addison Smith (born 9 January 1933) is a South African novelist specialising in historical fiction about the international involvement in Southern Africa across four centuries, seen from the viewpoints of both black and white families.

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I am a closet birdwatcher. I can identify Southern African species, but it irks me I can barely tell a jay from a blackbird in the U. K.

Blackbirds, Closet, Closets, Irks, Jay, Southern

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. '

Book, Come, Fine, Halfway, Islands, Thinking

I go on a hunting safari at least once a year to Botswana, which is fantastic because we have a huge area of wilderness entirely to ourselves. My island covers roughly 55 acres, which again I have to myself, with nearly half a kilometre of private beach with my own jetties and boats.

Beach, Entirely, Hunting, Islands, Jetties

What I like about writing is the sense of godlike power it gives you.

Giving, Godlike, Like, Sense, Writing

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.

Adventure, Book, Categorised, Read, Romance

Litigation only makes lawyers fat.

Fat, Fats, Law, Lawyer, Lawyers, Litigation

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.

Beach, Cape, Cold, Damn, Golf, Play

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?

Children, Life, Monsters, Perfect, Strange

A man follows the path laid out for him. He does his duty to God and his King. He does what he must do, not what pleases him. God's truth, boy, what kind of world would this be if every man did what pleased him alone? Who would plough the fields and reap the harvest, if every man had the right to say, 'I don't want to do that. ' In this world there is a place for every man, but every man must know his place.

Boys, Duty, God, Kings, Know, Men

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.

Book, Eight, Prospector, Public, School, Trader

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.

Bones, Care, Fuss, Vacate

I know it's politically incorrect but I enjoy things like the kick boxing and cock fighting.

Boxing, Cock, Enjoy, Fighting, Like

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.

Emissions, Government, Nation, Real, Root, Roots

All my characters have got a big slice of me in them. A big piece of me, because it's my dialogue and this is the way I think and talk.

Character, Dialogue, Pieces, Think, Thinking, Way

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.

Book, Books, Giving, Gold, Sells, Time

Herbert, my father, was born in Britain but went out to Africa in his teens to join his father and built up an 18,000-acre ranch in what was then Northern Rhodesia, providing work for the locals. He was my hero when I was a boy.

Boys, Father, Hero, Northern, Ranch

I write my books in my head, and not in a specific study with a view. The view is from my inner eyes.

Book, Eye, Eyes, Specific, Study, Writing

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.

Age, Day, Modern, Mother, School, Urn

It's probably true that everyone has a book in them, although it may not be a very good one.

Although, Book, Good, May, Very Good

You don't turn out as many books as I did then by sitting around, being cozy with the family.

Book, Cozy, Family, Sitting

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