Quotes by : Peter Ackroyd

History is about longing and belonging. It is about the need for permanence and the perception of continuity.....

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

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

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

It's difficult to know where to begin, sir.''Yes, the beginning is the tricky part. But perhaps there....

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

This mundus tenebrosus, this shaddowy world of Mankind, is sunk into Night; there is not a Field without....

DYER. (Sits down) There was nothing that I recall save that the Sunne was a Round flat shining Disc and....

I have long been of the Opinion, says he, that the Fire was a vast Blessing and the Plague likewise;....

Be informed, also, that this good and savoury Parish is the home of Hectors, Trapanners, Biters who all....