"There are so many characters whizzing around inside……" — Peter Ackroyd
"There are so many characters whizzing around inside my head, it's like Looney Tunes. But as soon as I've finished writing about them, I completely forget who they are."
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67 Quotes by Peter Ackroyd
Peter Ackroyd has 67 quotes on this site.
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Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens.
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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…
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I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.
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I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and…
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Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work…
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The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.
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Bigotry does not consort easily with free trade.
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Under the force of the imagination, nature itself is changed.
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It is strange, is it not, how a person can adore one's soul so much that they adore one's body…
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London goes beyond any boundary or convention.It contains every wish or word ever spoken, every action or gesture ever made,…
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Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just…
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No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave…
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If you pay attention to those aspects of God that demonstrate love, truth, beauty, intelligence, order, and spiritual evolution, those…
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Exercise is a pastime only for those who are already slender and physically fit. It just isn't so much fun…
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I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head
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Be very careful that you do not unconsciously assume that nervous tension is power. This is vital. Watch yourself the…
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I've always loved fairy tales. I think they perhaps led me to theater rather than the other way around. As…
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From early on I valued the gift of memory above all others. I understood that as we grow older we…
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I haven't become an American! Having a house in LA is just where the house is. It's just a convenience…
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I've always been aware of the otherworld, of spirits that exist in that twilight place that lies in the corner…
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You've got to get away from the idea cancer is a disease to be cured. It's not a disease really.…
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'Love' has that Kubrick tonality to it, but this is not a Stanley Kubrick movie - there will never be…
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Scarily, football helmets, which do a fine job of protecting against scalp laceration and skull fracture, do little to prevent…
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The brain sits snugly inside the skull, but it's not a completely flush fit - there is still a layer…
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