Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.
Peter AckroydThere are certain people who seem doomed to buy certain houses. The house expects them. It waits for them.
Peter AckroydI don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us.
Peter AckroydI don't know if I have a voice of my own. I don't see me being an important person with something to say. I haven't. I've got nothing to say. My opinion is of no consequence or value.
Peter Ackroyd