Book Quote by Peter Ackroyd

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

I believe that the gods themselves are frightened of the world which they have fashioned.

— Peter Ackroyd

“A woman is a deep Ditch, said he, her House inclines to Death and her Paths unto the Devil”

— Peter Ackroyd

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

The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.

— Peter Ackroyd

“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

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

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

“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

“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

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

“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