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Books Quotes by Peter Ackroyd
- London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.
- None of my books has been ever in my head; after they're finished, they go. It's like being a sort of medium; you just grab…
- And when I was young, did I ever tell you, I always wanted to get inside a book and never come out again? I loved…
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