Hackney at certain epochs has given itself suburban airs and graces, before being slapped down and consigned once more to the dump… — Iain Sinclair Airs Copy Share Image
“I was gazing back in the direction of Wales, watching the Prudence clone, when I noticed a couple of drunks lurching in… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
As you become known, the demands on you are such that you get less and less time to do the things you… — Iain Sinclair Demand Copy Share Image
I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It… — Iain Sinclair Always Copy Share Image
“Why not add another yarn? That’s all we are in the end, any of us, a couple of dozen unreliable stories.” — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
The negotiation of city space has been made more difficult with the idea that redevelopment is an improvement for some vague future… — Iain Sinclair Been Copy Share Image
London is a city that sleeps too much. This is the mould of its quality. A magnetic contract: to reinvent itself on… — Iain Sinclair Architecture Copy Share Image
If the landscape changes, then I don't know who I am either. The landscape is a refracted autobiography. As it disappears you… — Iain Sinclair Am Copy Share Image
“That made sense of gabby meetings: salient points isolated from the gush of acoustic froth. This paper belonged on a clipboard, not… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
“Michael Heseltine, a wild-haired visionary, Klaus Kinski to Margaret's Thatcher's Werner Herzog, pushed Docklands across the Thames to the East Greenwich Peninsula.… — Iain Sinclair Norma Desmond Copy Share Image
“The poet he was escorting into Wales was a Horus-headed dud of some personal magnetism. The hair was feathered gell, the nose… — Iain Sinclair Poetry Copy Share Image
“You can be so much in a room that the world outside turns to water. You've got the heater blowing out burnt… — Iain Sinclair Description Copy Share Image
An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys. — Iain Sinclair Departure Copy Share Image
Walking around becomes actually difficult. But the walking process is the oldest natural form of movement. It puts you literally in touch… — Iain Sinclair Communication Copy Share Image
As you withdraw energy from the city, you are also giving energy back. People are noticing you. You're doing something, you're there,… — Iain Sinclair Energy Copy Share Image
The kind of world I'm endlessly going on about is pretty well doomed, but nevertheless I think there are recesses of it… — Iain Sinclair About Copy Share Image
“One thing I had learnt, the last person you should ask for a solution is the author. If he knew where he… — Iain Sinclair Books Copy Share Image