Peter Ackroyd Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• And when I was young, did I ever tell you, I always wanted to get inside a book and never come out again? I loved reading so much I wanted to be a part of it, and there were some books I could have stayed in for ever.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Book, Reading, Young

  Peter Ackroyd (1996). “First Light”, p.50, Grove Press

• Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Book, Long, Chapters

• London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Book, Character, Imagination

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• In 'The Plato Papers' I wanted to get another perspective on the present moment by extrapolating into the distant future. So in that sense, there's a definite similarity of purpose between a book set in the future and a book set in the past.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Plato, Book, Past

• London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense with chapters of the history of smells, the history of silence, and the history of light. I have described the book as a labyrinth, and in that sense in complements my description of London itself.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Book, Smell, Light

• None of my books has been ever in my head; after they're finished, they go. It's like being a sort of medium; you just grab it when it's there then just release it when it's time to go. There's a lot of instinct, not planning.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Book, Planning, Instinct

  "Peter Ackroyd: 'I just want to tell a story'" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2011.

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