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Edward Rutherfurd Quotes

For novelists, the imagination is everything. The trick is to guide one's imagination using research. I love using old maps. When I wrote my novels on London and New York, I found wonderful historical atlases. Paris has the most lavish maps of all.

Edward Rutherfurd

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: british
Birth: 1948

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