"Every book for me is a chapter in……" — Peter Ackroyd

"Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death."

— Peter Ackroyd

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67 Quotes by Peter Ackroyd

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

Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens.
I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose…
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…
Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work…
The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.
Bigotry does not consort easily with free trade.
Under the force of the imagination, nature itself is changed.
It is strange, is it not, how a person can adore one's soul so much that they adore one's body…
London goes beyond any boundary or convention.It contains every wish or word ever spoken, every action or gesture ever made,…
Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just…
No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave…

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I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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