Peter Ackroyd Quotes

Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me.

I've never returned to the locations. I do remember certain days more clearly than others and certain locations with a sense of nostalgia. Perhaps one day, I'll bring my daughter to see them, if she's interested.

When I was nine, the teacher asked us to write a piece about our village fete. He read mine in class. I was encouraged and continued. I even wanted to write my memoirs at the age of ten. At twelve I wrote poetry, mostly about friendship - 'Ode to Friendship.' Then my class wanted to make a film, and one little boy suggested that I write the script.

Happily, I had lots of childhood heroes.

In truth, I was desperate to leave New York. And Moscow was a special place for me. It was the city where my parents had grown up, where they had met; it was the city where I was born.

If you have children and want to give your future self a present, record their laughter as toddlers. When they're older and away from you, you might find that clip in the middle of the day, and it will transport you as surely as if you had a time machine.

I grew up on particular movies that said something to me as a kid from Missouri, movies that showed me places I'd yet traveled, or different cultures, or explained something, or said something in a better way than I could ever say. I wanted to find the movies like that. It was less about a career than finding the films I wanted to see.

I think seeing the love between a mother and child is something we can all really relate to. You can remember it from your own childhood perspective.

I've watched 'General Hospital' for 35 years. I grew up with it. It holds such a place in my heart.

I've been writing songs on little pieces of paper since I was a little kid, and it's just always been something I've done.

I want my music to make you reminiscent or nostalgic of your childhood, or take you back to a better place.

When we were kids, I know when I saw 'Pinocchio' it had a huge impact. I was ten years old, and I went home, and I was drawing the characters.

As a child, I learned hundreds of poems by heart, which I can recite to this day.

Cruces is like my town, where I grew up, where my heart is... All the teachers and coaches and people who have really influenced my life are from there.

People called me Cilla when I was little because I was always singing and writing poems.

It's hard to remember my childhood without remembering music.

I haven't had a chance to decorate my dressing room yet, but I have these pictures of myself as a kid that I want to put up because I said, 'I really want to make sure that I take that kid with me on this journey.' I want him to experience this.

I have a nostalgia for the years I was growing up and experiencing new things for the first time - so the late '80s and early '90s are always fascinating to me. Those were the times that I was being informed about a lot of my tastes, and so the memories are fused with a lot of emotion.

I think that 'Cry Baby' came from a nickname I was called as a kid.

I can remember that 2005 Ashes as a kid and being really absorbed in that whole series at 14 years old. It was magical.

Wisconsin will always be home to me in a nostalgic kind of way.

Shanghai, the city where I was born and spent my first four and a half years. It's not necessarily the most pleasant or most comforting place, but I have blood memory there, my core was formed there, so I need to go back often, or else I become empty, lost, without meaning.

When I think of Paisley, I think of everything that has shaped my life.

I keep a notebook on my bedside table and write poetry every night before I go to sleep. It's been something I've been doing since I was in the second grade, when I was encouraged by my teacher.

When I was a little girl, my first link to the world was as a reader. Sometimes, I feel a nostalgia for those times, for all the emotions I felt as a child - discovering novels, discovering Dickens, Balzac, or Dostoevsky. I wanted to be like those men.