"Why should a novelist not also be a……" — 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 nature. To expect a writer to produce only novels, or only histories, is equivalent to demanding from a composer that he or she write only string quartets or piano sonatas."
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Peter Ackroyd
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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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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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What captivity has been to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish. For us, the romance of our native…
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Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose.
— Sun Tzu
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The English practice of accommodating the rules of commercial law to commercial practice. The line of causation ran from economic…
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Oh, dear God, thank you, you are such a good God to us. A kind and gentle and accommodating God,…
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With impeccable timing and a fine instinct for the telling detail, Francesca Abbate evokes the plenitudes and the deprivations of…
— Unknown Author
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Victims may be defensive, submissive, over-accommodating to others, passive-aggressive in conflict, dependent on others for self-worth, overly sensitive, even manipulative.…
— David Emerald Womeldorff
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Theology, Mr. Fortune found, is a more accommodating subject than mathematics; its technique of exposition allows greater latitude. For instance…
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
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"Diversity" is a difficulty to be overcome, not an advantage to be sought. True, America does a better job than…
— Ann Coulter
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But, the true reason for the success of such new expositions [translated Eastern religious texts] is to be found where…
— Julius Evola
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Dogs are born knowing exactly what they want to do: eat, scratch, roll in disgusting stuff, sniff and squabble with…
— Jon Katz
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My background has been very helpful for this experience. But everyone was so accommodating because they knew it's not the…
— Jeri Ryan
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It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions.
— Adrian Tan
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The people were just so lovely and accommodating and had really interesting questions and it was just interesting to see…
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