I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives - Jessica Fletcher, 'Columbo,' 'Perry Mason,' 'L.A. Law.' Any sense of guilt appeals to me in a television program - a sense of guilt, or a sense of making a lot of money.
Peter AckroydLondon has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.
Peter AckroydThe ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.
Peter Ackroyd