Top 16 Quotes by Iain Sinclair

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

What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.

If the landscape changes, then I don't know who I am either. The landscape is a refracted autobiography. As it disappears you lose your sense of self.

If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.

I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.

The kind of world I'm endlessly going on about is pretty well doomed, but nevertheless I think there are recesses of it worth celebrating.

There is an obvious connection, on the declining Roman empire's bread and circuses model, between political enthusiasm for public spectacles and the periods when we are least able to pay for them.

You can't impose a legacy.

An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.

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