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I descend from both Philadelphia Quakers and Carolina colonists whose families were separated by the Revolutionary War. That helped give me insight into the agony of Patriots who, until the British government denied their claims, had always, like Ben Franklin himself, thought of themselves as free-born Englishmen.

~Edward Rutherfurd

Topics: Agony Always Ben Both British Carolina Claims Colonists Denied Descend Englishmen Families Franklin Give Give Me Government Had Helped Himself Insight Like Me Patriots Philadelphia Quakers Revolutionary Revolutionary War Separated Themselves Thought Until War Were Who Whose

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Paris. City of love. City of dreams. City of splendor. City of saints and scholars. City of gaiety. Sink of iniquity.

~Edward Rutherfurd

Topics: City Dreams Gaiety Iniquity Love Paris Saints Scholars Sink Splendor

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For centuries my father's family lived on Britain's biggest tidal river, the Severn, on which there was a huge trade with the interior, and through the Port of Bristol with America.

~Edward Rutherfurd

Topics: America Biggest Bristol Britain Centuries Family Father Huge Interior Lived Port River Through Trade Which

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I myself was born beside a river - the Avon in Sarum. So when I first encountered New York's great harbor and the Hudson River as a teenager, and came to understand their historic canal and railroad links to the vast spaces of the Midwest, I felt both the thrill of a new adventure and a deep sense of homecoming.

~Edward Rutherfurd

Topics: Adventure Beside Born Both Came Canal Deep Encountered Felt First Great Harbor Historic Homecoming Hudson Links Midwest Myself New Railroad River Sense Spaces Teenager Thrill Understand Vast York

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I first considered writing 'New York' in 1991. I'd been in the city for a decade, was married to an American wife, and sending my children to New York schools. I was even on the board of a coop building. But I wasn't sure how to organize such complex material, and for many years I put the project aside.

~Edward Rutherfurd

Topics: American Aside Been Board Building Children City Complex Considered Decade Even First How Many Married Material New New York Organize Project Put Schools Sending Sure Wife Writing Years York

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Writing historical novels can be dangerous. We need to be as accurate and as fair about the historical record as we can be, at the same time as creating our fictional characters and, hopefully, telling a good story. The challenge is weaving the fiction into the history.

~Edward Rutherfurd

Topics: About Accurate Challenge Characters Creating Dangerous Fair Fiction Fictional Good Good Story Historical History Hopefully Need Novels Our Record Same Same Time Story Telling Time Weaving Writing

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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

Topics: Everything Found Guide Historical Imagination Lavish London Love Maps Most New New York Novelists Novels Old Paris Research Trick Using Wonderful Wrote York I Love

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For me, playing music while I write is important. Several of the romantic scenes in 'Paris' were written with Debussy's 'String Quartet,' his 'L'Apres-midi d'une Faune,' or Canteloube's 'Songs of the Auvergne' playing in the background.

~Edward Rutherfurd

Topics: Background His Important Me Music Paris Playing Quartet Romantic Scenes Several Songs String Were While Write Written I Write

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All of my career has been an attempt to educate myself and get paid for it.

~Edward Rutherfurd

Topics: Attempt Been Career Educate Get Myself Paid

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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