If I did only one thing at a time I'd think I was wasting my time. If, for example, I only wrote novels I would feel like a charlatan and a fraud.
Peter AckroydI am in the Pitte, but I have gone so deep that I can see the brightness of the Starres at Noon.
Peter AckroydIt's only recently that we've discovered that the artist's inner self is somehow more important than the public world. I'm happier to create exterior pieces for the world rather than to express something I deeply feel or wish to say.
Peter AckroydThere are certain people who seem doomed to buy certain houses. The house expects them. It waits for them.
Peter Ackroyd