Wilbur Smith Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“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.”

“I shot my first lion at the age of 14 when a pride threatened my father's livestock while he was away on holiday.”

“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.”

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

“I put my soul into every book I write.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Real men read my books.”

“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.”

“Despite the fact that I spend a lot of time in London, Switzerland and New York, Africa is the place I know and love best, and my heart will always lie here.”