London Quotes by Iain Sinclair

“Atkins knows two kinds of birds: seagulls and the ones that aren't seagulls.”

— Iain Sinclair

“The faster we walk, the more ground we lose.”

— Iain Sinclair

“Men of the cloth live in this monologue, it is their due: nobody talks back to a pulpit.”

— Iain Sinclair

“...drunk enough on earth's liquors to relish the prospect of the knife.”

— Iain Sinclair

“All kinds of weird stuff going down, whisperings in corners, significant matches struck and blown out. The whores, unoccupied, were drinking heavily. The police,…

— Iain Sinclair

“I looked at this first sheet, words scribbled confidently on a lined pad. My attempt at making contact the spirit of Llandor. Disaster. I…

— Iain Sinclair

You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.

— Iain Sinclair

You'd better make it your business to understand the market. The ability to charm or play the game is useful.

— Iain Sinclair

Culture isn't all just about what can be tweaked and twitched in the simplest possible way. As people move around, they literally don't see…

— Iain Sinclair

You can't impose a legacy.

— Iain Sinclair

The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before. Everything changes, and that's quite right.

— Iain Sinclair

The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.

— Iain Sinclair

I am crumbling in sync with old Hackney.

— Iain Sinclair

“The suicide hour of cold coffee and alien voices on the radio.”

— Iain Sinclair

For the bookish, London is a book. For criminals, a map of opportunities. For unpapered immigrants, it is a nest of skinned eyes; sanctioned…

— Iain Sinclair