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. Wilbur Smith Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I have done everything I have ever wanted to do. I have swum with tiger sharks, been charged by lions and elephants. I have been shot three times, chased by crocodiles and, God be praised, I’ve made enough money that I can continue to do all the things I want to for as long as I am able. Wilbur Smith Read Quote
My mother-in-law speaks not a word of English. I speak not a word of Tajiki. So I smile at her ingratiatingly and she fixes me with a beady eye. Wilbur Smith Read Quote
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? Wilbur Smith Read Quote
You don’t turn out as many books as I did then by sitting around, being cozy with the family. Wilbur Smith Read Quote
As regards to personal safety, you do have to be careful not to put yourself at risk when travelling in South Africa. You don’t want to go out exploring at night, for example. Wilbur Smith Read Quote
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. Wilbur Smith Read Quote
