Logo
Quote by Wilbur Smith
The first novel I wrote was a monster - clocking in at 180,000 wor

The first novel I wrote was a monster – clocking in at 180,000 words – but it died a death, a death it deserved. It was called The Gods First Make Mad. It was a good title, but it was the only good thing about the book. I didnt let that put me off. – Wilbur Smith

Other quotes by Wilbur Smith

Im not a good father and theyre 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

Category:
relationship
Author
Wilbur Smith
Read Quote

Im 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

Category:
Future
Author
Wilbur Smith
Read Quote

I hate politics. I like to write about it, but to get involved in it, to try and make a lot of ignorant people do what you want them to do, waste of time. Go and write a book. Its more important and itll last longer. – Wilbur Smith

Category:
Politics
Author
Wilbur Smith
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Death
category

If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad. – Jack Kevorkian

Category:
Death

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic. – Lorna Luft

Category:
Death

Theres stuff I dont like to rehearse, really emotional things, I dont like to rehearse. You just beat it to death. – Kat Dennings

Category:
Death

To a billion people around the world surviving on just a dollar a day, the question of what to eat tonight is more about life and death than about recipes. The struggle of poor people around the globe weighs heavily on me, especially now that I am a mother, which is why I work with Oxfam. – Giada De Laurentiis

Category:
Death

Random Quotes

We take the stars from heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to posterity, representing our liberty. – George Washington, attributed

Category:
Flag Day

It takes a long time to grow an old friend. – John Leonard

Category:
Friendship

Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life. – Gabriela Sabatini

Category:
positive

I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded. – Mary Oliver

Category:
alone