Wilbur Smith Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• I write my books in my head, and not in a specific study with a view. The view is from my inner eyes.

  Wilbur Smith

  Book, Writing, Eye

• It's probably true that everyone has a book in them, although it may not be a very good one.

  Wilbur Smith

  Book, May, Very Good

• 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

  Book, School, Eight

• You don't turn out as many books as I did then by sitting around, being cozy with the family.

  Wilbur Smith

  Book, Sitting, Cozy

• 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.

  Wilbur Smith

  Book, Adventure, Romance

• 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.

  Wilbur Smith

  Book, Giving, Gold

• Usually halfway through a book I have a serious depression, so I go on safari on my ranch in South Africa, or fishing off my island in the Seychelles. When I come back and re-read it, I think: 'What was all that about, Smith? It's fine, just get on with it.'

  Wilbur Smith

  Book, Thinking, Islands

  "This much I know". Interview with Hilly Janes, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2003.

• I put my soul into every book I write.

  Wilbur Smith

  Book, Writing, Soul

• I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background.

  Wilbur Smith

  Book, Biographies, Backgrounds

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