Books Quote by Edward Rutherfurd

I went to Europe three times, I read dozens and dozens of books, I studied thousands of photos. But I always supplemented that research…

— Anthony Doerr

We tend to intensely scout an area and then use our imaginations to make the best use of the geography.

— Joe Russo

I've always really loved big worlds and the kind of worldbuilding where you can open a portal into a new realm that feels full…

— Victoria Aveyard

The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible.

— Alain de Botton

If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that the stories…

— John Irving

For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming.

— Anthony Doerr

Landscape pictures can offer us, I think, three verities: geography, autobiography, and metaphor. Geography is, if taken alone, sometimes boring, autobiography is frequently trivial,…

— Robert Adams

With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.

— Tamora Pierce

Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map.... A…

— Stephen King

The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with pictures.

— Charlotte Mason

I'm not very interested in charting a day-to-day familiar reality. I'm always looking for territory in which to explore the BIG subjects, the life-or-death…

— Rose Tremain