Wilbur Smith
Wilbur Smith
Wilbur Addison Smithis a South African novelist specialising in historical fiction about the international involvement in Southern Africa across three centuries, seen from the viewpoints of both black and white families...
ProfessionNon-Fiction Author
Date of Birth9 January 1933
CityKabwe, Zambia
spring ideas creative
I have never had too much trouble for creative ideas to spring up in my mind.
fighting boxing enjoy
I know it's politically incorrect but I enjoy things like the kick boxing and cock fighting.
want wells storyteller
I want to be seen as a good storyteller. I'm a manipulator as well.
sea
I love the sea as much as I love the veldt of Africa.
father holiday pride
I shot my first lion at the age of 14 when a pride threatened my father's livestock while he was away on holiday.
law lawyer fats
Litigation only makes lawyers fat.
inspiring mothers-day children
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.
country rich-countries white
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.
country reality views
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.
kissing men color
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.
rivers today fountainhead
History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.
country boys opportunity
The really disturbing thing about Somalia is that in a country where there are few economic opportunities, pirates are perceived as glamorous and are held in awe by young boys who aspire to their lifestyle.
father air yards
My family wasn't terribly affluent and looked upon money very carefully as something that had to be saved, not spent. My father built the ducting that took air into the copper mines and made about 6 d a yard in the Thirties, which was good money back then.
father hero boys
Herbert, my father, was born in Britain but went out to Africa in his teens to join his father and built up an 18,000-acre ranch in what was then Northern Rhodesia, providing work for the locals. He was my hero when I was a boy.