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

- Wilbur Smith
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I believe that a healthy body breeds a healthy mind. I am 74 years old now and my wife, Niso, is 38 years younger than me. She absolutely insists that I take regular exercise with her.

They say I'm worth either ??00 million, ??00 million, ??0 million or ??0 million, but that's something between God, the HMRC and myself.

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.

At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's 'Introduction To Modern English And American Literature.' To this day I keep it on the shelf between my collection of Forester's works and the little urn that contains my mother's ashes.

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.

I'm a feminist. The women in my books in recent years have been powerful characters and I love to see a woman with a cute bottom walking past.

My mother-in-law speaks not a word of English. I speak not a word of Tajiki. So I smile at her ingratiatingly and she fixes me with a beady eye.

All my characters have got a big slice of me in them. A big piece of me, because it's my dialogue and this is the way I think and talk.

I'm not perfect and I know it. I've done all sorts of things that are frowned upon these days - big-game hunting, fishing. I still enjoy fishing but I don't kill warm-blooded animals any more - I make an exception with birds sometimes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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