Quotes by : Peter Ackroyd

So we may use our books to form a barricade against the world,interweaving their words with our own to....

Is Dust immortal then, I ask'd him, so that we may see it blowing through the Centuries? But as Walter....

The English seem to relish unsystematic learning of this kind, in the same manner that they embarked....

I am the scourge of God

DYER. No, I am not of your Mind, for the Dialogue was fitted up with too much Facility. Words must be....

I have always believed that the material world is governed by nonmaterial sources, so that in that sense....

Generally he knew by instinct the likely length of an investigation, but on this occasion he did not:....

It has often been said that the more unusual the murder the easier it is to solve, but this is a theory....

His body had become a companion which seemed always about to leave him: it had its own pains which moved....

the great advantage of really contemporary fiction is that one finds oneself mirror on every page