It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.

We’ve got really great story here in New London. We should tell it.

Finally, there’s a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.

London was one of the worst places to have a bad day and one of the best places to have a good day

I will try to win the Olympics gold in London.

In my own shire, if I was sadHomely comforters I had:The earth, because my heart was sore,Sorrowed for the son she bore;And standing hills, long to remain,Shared their short-lived comrade’s pain.And bound for the same...

I was free with every road as my home. No limitations and no commitments. But then summer passed and winter came and I fell short for safety. I fell for its spell, slowly humming me...

And marbled clouds go scudding byThe many-steepled London sky.

From the top of the bus she could see the vast bowl of London spreading out to the horizon: splendid shops with mannequins in the window, interesting people and already a much bigger world.

When you’re depressed you retreat and you go into a smaller world. This is why Brighton worked well for the story, because it’s a smaller world than London.

Italians give their city sexes, and they all agree that the sex for a particular city is quite correct, but none of them can explain why. I love that. London’s middle-aged and male, respectably married...

You can see the people who thought they could come to London, bend over and pick gold off the streets. They’re all lying on benches in Trafalgar Square with hernias and cans of Special Brew.

During my stay in London I resided for a considerable time in Clapham Road in the neighbourhood of Clapham Common… One fine summer evening I was returning by the last bus ‘outside’ as usual, through...

The morning has broken – I had thought of the morning like an egg that had split with a crack and was spreading. Before us lay all the green of the green country of England,...

Peter Hall was just organizing the Royal Shakespeare Company. It was going to be an ensemble, it was going to be in repertory, it was going to have a home in London as well as...

‘The Globe’ is one of the most terrifying theatres in London. It’s that mob element – everyone packed in and staring up at you.

Italy and London are the only places where I don’t feel to exist on sufferance.

In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate towards bookshops, because a bookshop is one of the few places where you...

I liked the idea of a person shedding their life, and someone else putting it on. -Oliver Harris on writing The Hollow Man for Crime Time online magazine

She’d first seen Covent Garden after a heavy snow, walking with her hand in Win’s, and she remembers the secret silence of London then, the amazing hush of it, slush crunching beneath her feet and...

These friends – and he laid his hand on some of the books – have been good friends to me, and for some years past, ever since I had the idea of going to London,...

Cutting my roots and leaving my home and family when I was 18 years old forced me to build my home in other things, like my music, stories and my journey. The last years I...

I think the whole, like, cultural diversity and the arty side of London is really, really great. And how it’s so historic as well.

Could I be brave enough to look lower? I could. His black tee shirt licked his hard body and I could only guess what was hidden underneath it. His faded jeans hung dangerously low, revealing...

I fancy you, Kitty Dawson,” a lone boy shouted.

The Thames was beautiful, dark, and swift beneath the billion yellow and white lights of the city…

I never realized before that taking care of someone makes you love them more than when they take care of you.

The city was alive, and so was he…

You must live a very free life.””Me?” she laughed. “I am not who swoops out of the sky to rain fire on pirates!””Yeah, but before this I never did much. I mean I did a...

He reasoned, even as a young man, that traditions may linger as he walked though the oracles of time. In later years he thought his mind may one day blur, should he survive to an...

The Thames Shouldered its way past Blackfriars Bridge, impatient with the ancient piers, no longer the passive stream that slid past Chelsea Marina, but a rush of ugly water that had scented the open sea...

Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.

London was so rich, and also so green, and somehow so detailed: full of stuff that had been made, and bought, and placed, and groomed, and shaped, and washed clean, and put on display as...

The return of the rain, beating out time on London’s rooftops and pavements. Early morning Zombies sheltering beneath copies of the Standard whilst others ran screaming for cover in doorways because water from the heavens...

I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.

I want my life to be the greatest story. My very existence will be the greatest poem.Watch me burn.Love always, Charlotte

When I am in London, all I do is mix with other people in the arts.

You don’t think you’re a vampire, Sam. That kind of thing you know.

My cousins gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.

I want you to know that I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.

Snarling an oath from an Icelandic saga, I reclaimed my place at the head of the queue. “Oy!” yelled a punk rocker, with studs in his cranium. “There’s a fackin’ queue!”Never apologize, advises Lloyd George....

We don’t expect this to result in a downturn in tourists to London.

Like most cities, London could be a lonely place…

I’m confident of what I have to achieve in the buildup to London 2012.

My very core clenches and spasms, my hips with a mind of their own, lurch. It is as if I no longer have control of any part of my body. ‘Ugh,’ I continue to groan...

I just like to say I’m from London, I don’t have any specific area I represent. I’m not representing for a small group of people. I’d like everybody to be able to relate to a...

His OFELLUS in the Art of Living in London, I have heard him relate, was an Irish painter, whom he knew at Birmingham, and who had practiced his own precepts of economy for several years...

It was a rule of London life that anybody could be anybody

London is one of the most fascinating, historic, amazing cities in the world!

While in England write or get wrought rotten rusted.