Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death. — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“So we may use our books to form a barricade against the world, interweaving their words with our own to ward off… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
None of my books has been ever in my head; after they're finished, they go. It's like being a sort of medium;… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
In 'The Plato Papers' I wanted to get another perspective on the present moment by extrapolating into the distant future. So in… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
And when I was young, did I ever tell you, I always wanted to get inside a book and never come out… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“what think you of that, Nick, since you allwaies have your Head stuck in old Books? And I said nothing, for who… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“There is a camaraderie that grows up among those who work with old books and old papers, largely, I suspect, because we… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“Books do not perish like humankind. Of course we commonly see them broken in the haberdasher's shop when only a few months… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“There were pools of light among the stacks, directly beneath the bulbs which Philip had switched on, but it was now with… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
If I did only one thing at a time I'd think I was wasting my time. If, for example, I only wrote novels I… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share
I believe that the gods themselves are frightened of the world which they have fashioned. — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share
“A woman is a deep Ditch, said he, her House inclines to Death and her Paths unto the Devil” — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share
I don't know if I have a voice of my own. I don't see me being an important person with something to say. I… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share
The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience. — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share
“I believe now that there can be no real sense of loss or seperation without the recognition of death; we were too young to… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share
I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share
Rioting has always been a London tradition. It has been since the early Middle Ages. There's hardly a spate of years that goes by… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share
“absinthe removes the bitter taste of failure and grants me strange visions which are charming principally because they cannot be written down. Only in… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share
“Those in their snug Bed-chambers may call the Fears of Night meer Bugbears, but their Minds have not pierced into the Horror of the… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share
In so far as I have any beliefs, I suppose I'm like that old Peggy Lee song, 'Is That All There Is?' I want… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share
“dyer. (Looking at him scornfully) So that is why Wits swarm like Egypt's Frogs. If I were a Writer now, I would wish to… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share
The embrace of present and past time, in which English antiquarianism becomes a form of alchemy, engenders a strange timelessness. It is as if… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share
In London, I've always lived within 10 miles of where I was born. You see, there is something called a spirit of place, and… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share
There is no humiliation worse than the consciousness of a wasted life. It stains the spirit, forestalls hope, and destroys any motive for action… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share
