Choose language

Forgot your password?

Need a Spoofbox account? Create one for FREE!

No subscription or hidden extras

Login


For when I trace back the years I have liv'd, gathering them up in my Memory, I see what a chequer'd Work Of Nature my life has been. If I were now to inscribe my own History with its unparalleled Sufferings and surprizing Adventures (as the Booksellers might indite it), I know that the great Part of the World would not believe the Passages there related, by reason of the Strangeness of them, but I cannot help their Unbelief; and if the Reader considers them to be but dark Conceits, then let him bethink himself that Humane life is quite out of the Light and that we are all Creatures of Darknesse.


Peter Ackroyd


#history #reader #time #writer #life



Quote by Peter Ackroyd

Read through all quotes from Peter Ackroyd



About Peter Ackroyd





Did you know about Peter Ackroyd?

The Great Fire of London Hawksmoor The House of Doctor Dee). He has long been known for his abuse of alcohol and in 1999 he suffered a heart attack and was placed in a medically induced coma for a week almost dying. It’s so untidy.

He is noted for the volume of work he has produced the range of styles therein his skill at assuming different voices and the depth of his research. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society for Literature in 1984 and created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2003. For his novels about English history and culture and his biographies of among others Charles Dickens T.

back to top