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Work Quotes by Peter Ackroyd
- Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating…
- I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical.
- 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 words…
- To be a writer was always my greatest aim. I remember writing a play about Guy Fawkes when I was 10. I suppose it's significant,…
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