Author: Peter Ackroyd

Quotes

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

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

Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens.

Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens.

- 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

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

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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