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Wilbur Smith Quotes

What I like about writing is the sense of godlike power it gives you.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality:
Birth: January 9, 1933

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Power Writing You Sense Like About

I'm outdoors a lot, so I get dark. Guess who gets stopped? I've been pulled over, and they ask, 'Where are you from?' I say, 'Montana.' They say, 'Are you sure? And I say, 'I'm reasonably sure I'm from Montana, but you know, this is a dream life.' You start on this shtick with them and it's fun.

Life Fun Start Outdoors You Dark

Past waters don't move anything. They only create mosquitoes.

Past Create Anything Move Only

My first record was almost not my first record.

First Almost Record

You can be in show business and have a happy, productive life. But you have to be a developed human being before you can do that.

Michelle Phillips

Life Business Happy You Human Being

I love my work, apart from when it's driving me crazy. But I get to be interested in stuff and think like a filmmaker as I'm buzzing about the world and then see an opportunity to make a film, and then make it happen.

Work Love Opportunity Make It Happen

I don't understand why or how anyone ever pulled off the whole idea of 'women are inferior.'

Women Why Understand Whole Off Idea

My generation has to deal with how to overcome a trauma, how to overcome destruction, and how to tell the truth to the next generation.

Truth Generation Overcome Trauma How

It's a cliche, but true, that writing is intensely solitary and at times really lonely. I sit in one room and talk to squirrels and blue jays all day.

Douglas Coupland

Day Blue Writing Lonely True Talk

I've been fortunate that I have good athletic ability, just in general. Quick, strong, able to bounce off players, trying to be strong in winning tackles, and annoying to play against, pretty much.

Christian Pulisic

Good Be Strong Winning Strong Play

I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing, they know all of these things that you can only learn by telling a story out loud and interacting with an audience.

Chuck Palahniuk

Time Story Thought Learn You Timing

You go out with a girl you used to date, she looks so damn good, and then at a certain point you say, Boy, now I remember. I know why I left!

Good Girl Remember You Looks Know

The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.

Alfred North Whitehead

Future Appreciation Thought Creation

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