It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be doing it anyway: it's my life.

- 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 what's ar…

- Iain Sinclair

As you become known, the demands on you are such that you get less and less time to do the things you want to do. But if there are no demands, then t…

- Iain Sinclair

London is a city that sleeps too much. This is the mould of its quality. A magnetic contract: to reinvent itself on the other side of dream, each day…

- Iain Sinclair

People are moving faster - you can see that in the streets. Partly that's because of the electronic devices, which encourage this.

- 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 gunmen r…

- Iain Sinclair

Life and career are the same thing. Every life has to have a plot and a plan. You have to recognize this early and be quite cold-blooded in the disco…

- Iain Sinclair

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

- Iain Sinclair