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. Wilbur Smith More Quotes by Wilbur Smith More Quotes From Wilbur Smith I shot my first lion at the age of 14 when a pride threatened my father's livestock while he was away on holiday. Wilbur Smith holiday pride father I have never had too much trouble for creative ideas to spring up in my mind. Wilbur Smith creative spring ideas There's nothing so aphrodisiacal for a woman as money and success. Wilbur Smith Quite frankly, I think political correctness is the worst form of censorship. You're not allowed to speak your mind unless you're black, or unless you're a terrorist, or unless you're an Arab or a minority people. Then you can say what you like. But if you are like a lot of us you are not supposed to say certain things. Wilbur Smith speak-your-mind people thinking 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 safari father years I know it's politically incorrect but I enjoy things like the kick boxing and cock fighting. Wilbur Smith enjoy boxing fighting People don't really know themselves until they're 30. Like most people nowadays, I went to university, got a degree and wandered for a bit. I trained to be a chartered accountant, which I didn't much enjoy, and it was only slowly that the idea of becoming a creative writer gelled. Wilbur Smith creative people ideas I want to be seen as a good storyteller. I'm a manipulator as well. Wilbur Smith storyteller wells want I put my soul into every book I write. Wilbur Smith soul writing book I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background. Wilbur Smith backgrounds biographies book What I like about writing is the sense of godlike power it gives you. Wilbur Smith godlike writing giving 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. Wilbur Smith details men jesus The best cure for racism is to have somebody shoot at you. Man, it does not matter then what color the arse is that comes to save yours-black or white, you're ready to give it a big fat kiss. Wilbur Smith kissing color men I'm not a good father and they're not children any more; the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers broke down and, because of what the law was, they went with their mothers and were imbued with their mothers' morality in life and they were not my people any more. Wilbur Smith mothers-day inspiring children A cynic had defined aid as simply the system by which poor white people in rich countries gave money to rich black people in poor countries to put into Swiss bank accounts. Wilbur Smith rich-countries white country beware of your most implacable enemy-yourself. Wilbur Smith enemy You know that feeling when you finish a final exam and you think, 'I never want to do that again'? Well I have the same feeling when I finish a novel. Each time I say, 'I think I may retire now' and then after six months the ideas start to churn again. I could never stop. Wilbur Smith feelings ideas thinking 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 views country reality History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead. Wilbur Smith fountainhead rivers today You don't turn out as many books as I did then by sitting around, being cozy with the family. Wilbur Smith cozy sitting book
