“I myself was born beside a river - the Avon in Sarum. So when I first ...” — Edward Rutherfurd Quote

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“Life's supposed to be an adventure, a surprise!”

“I'm always improving and I want to get better and never hit a plateau. I find it an amazing adventure.”

“A traveler is really not someone who crosses ground so much as someone who is always hungry for the next challenge and adventure.”

“First, I am afraid to die and I love to live. But an adventure is only an adventure when there is the threat of dying.”

“Perhaps the spirit of adventure, be it mental or material adventure, is a factor so essential in human progress that no emphasis of it is undue.”

“Being vegan is a glorious adventure. It touches every aspect of my life - my relationships, how I relate to the world.”