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I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical.

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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.
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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;…
And when I was young, did I ever tell you, I always wanted to get inside a book and never come out…

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I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical. — Peter Ackroyd

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