It is strange, is it not, how a person can adore one's soul so much that they adore one's body also?
Peter AckroydWhy 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.
Peter AckroydEvery book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.
Peter Ackroyd