“Atkins knows two kinds of birds: seagulls and the ones that aren't seagulls.” — Iain Sinclair Humor Copy Share Image
“Men of the cloth live in this monologue, it is their due: nobody talks back to a pulpit.” — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
“...drunk enough on earth's liquors to relish the prospect of the knife.” — Iain Sinclair Nature Copy Share Image
“All kinds of weird stuff going down, whisperings in corners, significant matches struck and blown out. The whores, unoccupied, were drinking heavily.… — Iain Sinclair Description Copy Share Image
“I looked at this first sheet, words scribbled confidently on a lined pad. My attempt at making contact the spirit of Llandor.… — Iain Sinclair Meaningful work Copy Share Image
You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography. — Iain Sinclair Become Copy Share Image
You'd better make it your business to understand the market. The ability to charm or play the game is useful. — Iain Sinclair Ability Copy Share Image
Culture isn't all just about what can be tweaked and twitched in the simplest possible way. As people move around, they literally… — Iain Sinclair Culture Copy Share Image
The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before. Everything changes, and that's… — Iain Sinclair Before Copy Share Image
The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go. — Iain Sinclair Go Copy Share Image
“The suicide hour of cold coffee and alien voices on the radio.” — Iain Sinclair Suicide Copy Share Image
For the bookish, London is a book. For criminals, a map of opportunities. For unpapered immigrants, it is a nest of skinned… — Iain Sinclair Blow Copy Share Image
If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them. — Iain Sinclair About Copy Share Image
People are moving faster - you can see that in the streets. Partly that's because of the electronic devices, which encourage this. — Iain Sinclair Electronic devices Copy Share Image
The line of traffic advancing towards the rising sun looked like a procession of the returning dead. Every one of them, solitaries… — Iain Sinclair Advancing Copy Share Image
It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be… — Iain Sinclair Book Copy Share Image
With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the… — Iain Sinclair About Copy Share Image
I got interested in the contradiction between people who are understanding the city by not moving a single inch, by remaining in… — Iain Sinclair Contradiction Copy Share Image
Life and career are the same thing. Every life has to have a plot and a plan. You have to recognize this… — Iain Sinclair Articulation Copy Share Image
“Mossy had trouble breathing. He was not convinced the rewards repaid the effort. He took breath in, but after that let it… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
There is an obvious connection, on the declining Roman empire's bread and circuses model, between political enthusiasm for public spectacles and the… — Iain Sinclair Able Copy Share Image