Top 16 Quotes by Iain Sinclair

About Iain Sinclair

These are some quotes by British author Iain Sinclair Writer, who was born on June 11, 1943.

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

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

Iain Sinclair

I am crumbling in sync with old Hackney.

I am crumbling in sync with old Hackney.

Iain Sinclair

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

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

Iain Sinclair

The negotiation of city space has been made more difficult with the idea that redevelopment is an improvement for some vague future - but it's never like that, is it? Once you get there, for economic reasons you have to generate the next project - so you're immediately starting to dig up something else, and so it goes on.

Iain Sinclair

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

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

Iain Sinclair

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.

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.

Iain Sinclair

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.

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.

Iain Sinclair

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.

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.

Iain Sinclair

You can't impose a legacy.

You can't impose a legacy.

Iain Sinclair

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

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

Iain Sinclair

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