The embrace of present and past time, in which English antiquarianism becomes a form of alchemy, engenders a strange timelessness. It is… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Yes, I have inherited the past because I have acknowledged it at last? And, now that I have come to understand it,… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“I would have no need for the Memory Of Things past if those which were Present were more agreeable” — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us. — 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
You don't have to be brought up in a grand house to have a sense of the past, and I truly believe… — 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 Image
I believe that the gods themselves are frightened of the world which they have fashioned. — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“A woman is a deep Ditch, said he, her House inclines to Death and her Paths unto the Devil” — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
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 Image
The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience. — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
