Author: Peter Ackroyd

Quotes

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

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

- Peter Ackroyd

I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my Cockney accent.

I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my Cockney accent.

- Peter Ackroyd

Health, money. That's what people worried about in the 14th century as much as today. I find it so much more interesting than the supposed activities of kings, queens, generals.

Health, money. That's what people worried about in the 14th century as much as today. I find it so much more interesting than the supposed activities of kings, queens, generals.

- Peter Ackroyd

It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences - there's no real pattern.

It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences - there's no real pattern.

- Peter Ackroyd

London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.

London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.

- Peter Ackroyd

I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small.

I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small.

- Peter Ackroyd

As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.

As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.

- Peter Ackroyd

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