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Literature throws us many great heroes. Real life invariably outdoes them.

~Wilbur Smith

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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.

~Wilbur Smith

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I work on my novels wherever I have a PC, and I have four or five places around the world where I do have a PC. These days you can just slip a little flash drive into your top pocket, fly for 12 hours, come to another place, plug it into a computer and you are away again.

~Wilbur Smith

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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 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 love the sea as much as I love the veldt of Africa.

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To me, my characters are more real than most people I meet.

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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.

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There are people out there with an eye on my hard-earned cash who think that I am a pushover. I am not!

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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.

~Wilbur Smith

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Biography

Nationality: Unknown

Type: Novelist

Born: January 9th, 1933

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