Quotes by : Peter Ackroyd

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

You say that it is time to shake off the Mist, but Mankind walks in a Mist; that Reason which you cry....

Destruction is like a snow-ball rolled down a Hill, for its Bulk encreases by its own swiftness and thus....

He was clearly not the murderer whom Hawksmoor was seeking, but it was generally the innocent who confessed:....

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

I have had so many Dwellings, Nat, that I know these Streets as well as a strowling Beggar: I was born....

Books do not per­ish like hu­mankind. Of course we com­mon­ly see them bro­ken in the hab­er­dash­er's....

We went back into the Mens Apartments where there were others raving of Ships that may fly and silvered....

Women, of their nature, crave for liberty; they will not be ordered around like servants.

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