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Wilbur Smith

Novelist

Born: Jan 9, 1933

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Related authors: Charles Dickens Ernest Hemingway Gustave Flaubert James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Paulo Coelho Walter Scott

I still get enormous pleasure and a sense of fulfillment out of writing a book that I'm proud of. I see myself as a bit like a jewel-maker who can sit back and admire his work. Wilbur Smith

I want to be seen as a good storyteller. I'm a manipulator as well. Wilbur Smith

Good Seen Well Want Storyteller

I believe that a healthy body breeds a healthy mind. I am 74 years old now and my wife, Niso, is 38 years younger than me. She absolutely insists that I take regular exercise with her. Wilbur Smith

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. Wilbur Smith

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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. Wilbur Smith

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I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background. Wilbur Smith

Books Background Read Lot African Biographies

I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness. Wilbur Smith

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I'm not perfect and I know it. I've done all sorts of things that are frowned upon these days - big-game hunting, fishing. I still enjoy fishing but I don't kill warm-blooded animals any more - I make an exception with birds sometimes. Wilbur Smith

Sometimes Not Perfect Animals Enjoy Birds Hunting More Perfect Exception Days Know Make Sort Still Fishing Any Done Frowned Things

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. Wilbur Smith

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