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Top 15 Iain Sinclair Quotes (2025 Update)

Iain Sinclair Quote: “An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.”

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

— Iain Sinclair

Iain Sinclair Quote: “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.”

2. “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

Iain Sinclair Quote: “You’d better make it your business to understand the market. The ability to charm or play the game is useful.”

3. “You’d better make it your business to understand the market. The ability to charm or play the game is useful.”

— Iain Sinclair

Iain Sinclair Quote: “Getting comprehensively lost in a car with a full tank of petrol at someone else’s expense, you can’t beat it.”

4. “Getting comprehensively lost in a car with a full tank of petrol at someone else’s expense, you can’t beat it.”

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Iain Sinclair Quote: “You can be so much in a room that the world outside turns to water. You’ve got the heater blowing out burnt air, but you still don’t get warm. Your ankles are singed, but your head’s in a bucket of ice. Time drips like a stalactite. The water for the coffee boils away in a tree of steam.”

5. “You can be so much in a room that the world outside turns to water. You’ve got the heater blowing out burnt air, but you still don’t get warm. Your ankles are singed, but your head’s in a bucket of ice. Time drips like a stalactite. The water for the coffee boils away in a tree of steam.”

— Iain Sinclair

Iain Sinclair Quote: “The line of traffic advancing towards the rising sun looked like a procession of the returning dead. Every one of them, solitaries in clean shirts, smoking, checking mirrors to see if their reflections were still there, wore dark glasses.”

6. “The line of traffic advancing towards the rising sun looked like a procession of the returning dead. Every one of them, solitaries in clean shirts, smoking, checking mirrors to see if their reflections were still there, wore dark glasses.”

— Iain Sinclair

Iain Sinclair Quote: “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 that means nobody wants to read what you’re doing anyway, so you’re stuck.”

7. “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 that means nobody wants to read what you’re doing anyway, so you’re stuck.”

— Iain Sinclair

Iain Sinclair Quote: “For a poet the world is always static in the sense that you’re a mass observer and you can’t afford to care whether people are busy or not. You’re a witness.”

8. “For a poet the world is always static in the sense that you’re a mass observer and you can’t afford to care whether people are busy or not. You’re a witness.”

— Iain Sinclair

Iain Sinclair Quote: “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 discovery and articulation of that plot.”

9. “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 discovery and articulation of that plot.”

— Iain Sinclair

Iain Sinclair Quote: “The suicide hour of cold coffee and alien voices on the radio.”

10. “The suicide hour of cold coffee and alien voices on the radio.”

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Iain Sinclair Quote: “Geography is destiny. – James Ellroy.”

11. “Geography is destiny. – James Ellroy.”

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Iain Sinclair Quote: “Why not add another yarn? That’s all we are in the end, any of us, a couple of dozen unreliable stories.”

12. “Why not add another yarn? That’s all we are in the end, any of us, a couple of dozen unreliable stories.”

— Iain Sinclair

Iain Sinclair Quote: “The faster we walk, the more ground we lose.”

13. “The faster we walk, the more ground we lose.”

— Iain Sinclair

Iain Sinclair Quote: “Mossy had trouble breathing. He was not convinced the rewards repaid the effort. He took breath in, but after that let it fend for itself.”

14. “Mossy had trouble breathing. He was not convinced the rewards repaid the effort. He took breath in, but after that let it fend for itself.”

— Iain Sinclair

Iain Sinclair Quote: “He stood, fluffing his feathers: as poet, priest of place, shoulders sloped like folded wings; magenta scarf, scarlet lining to anorak, black-rimmed spectacles and aureole of wizardly white hair.”

15. “He stood, fluffing his feathers: as poet, priest of place, shoulders sloped like folded wings; magenta scarf, scarlet lining to anorak, black-rimmed spectacles and aureole of wizardly white hair.”

— Iain Sinclair

Iain Sinclair Quote: “MIDSUMMER: the shortest night. The year on its side. Joblard is to marry. To make that act, that avowal: St Bartholomew-the-Great. The Chemical Wedding, sponsus and sponsa, merging in song, twisting around the columns of that stone forest; celebrated here in the blending of russian stout, nigredo, with dry blackthorn cider. The risks crowd us, cackle; magpies at the window.”

16. “MIDSUMMER: the shortest night. The year on its side. Joblard is to marry. To make that act, that avowal: St Bartholomew-the-Great. The Chemical Wedding, sponsus and sponsa, merging in song, twisting around the columns of that stone forest; celebrated here in the blending of russian stout, nigredo, with dry blackthorn cider. The risks crowd us, cackle; magpies at the window.”

— Iain Sinclair

Iain Sinclair Quote: “With plenty of practice, we have learnt how to make a ritual of grief, even for those we have never met and know little about.”

17. “With plenty of practice, we have learnt how to make a ritual of grief, even for those we have never met and know little about.”

— Iain Sinclair

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