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Peter Ackroyd has 67 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last…
• I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.
• I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives…
• As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.
• Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.
• I saw a ghost once, about 20 years ago. It took the form of someone coming out of a sleeping body and…
• None of my books has been ever in my head; after they're finished, they go. It's like being a sort of medium;…
• Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens.

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