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Alan Hollinghurst Quotes

The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other.

The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other.

Alan Hollinghurst
Alan Hollinghurst (2014). “The Line of Beauty: Picador Classic”, p.146, Pan Macmillan

I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive.

Alan Hollinghurst

The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo.

Alan Hollinghurst
Writing, Great Wisdom, Tempo

I was rather a goody-goody as a child... It was only later on I discovered that you could be naughty and get away with it.

Alan Hollinghurst
Children, Naughty, Get Away

I think being an only child created in me a degree of self-reliance, which I'm glad of. It made me perfectly happy with my own company and perhaps was good conditioning for the protracted solitude of writing books as slowly as I do.

Alan Hollinghurst
Children, Book, Writing

...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for.

Alan Hollinghurst
Kind, Longing, Disdain
Alan Hollinghurst (2014). “The Line of Beauty: Picador Classic”, p.106, Pan Macmillan

He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.

Alan Hollinghurst
Unconditional Love, Compliment, Wanted
Alan Hollinghurst (2014). “The Line of Beauty: Picador Classic”, p.77, Pan Macmillan

Now that I had actually made love, more astonishingly now that I had been made love to, the fantasies were subtly undermined.

Alan Hollinghurst
Fantasy, Made
Alan Hollinghurst (1994). “The folding star”, Pantheon

To apologize for what you most wanted to do, to concede that it was obnoxious, boring, 'vulgar and unsafe' --- that was the worst thing.

Alan Hollinghurst
Apologizing, Boring, Worst
Alan Hollinghurst (2014). “The Line of Beauty: Picador Classic”, p.124, Pan Macmillan

she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face.

Alan Hollinghurst
Book, Half, Faces
Alan Hollinghurst (2011). “The Stranger's Child”, p.6, Pan Macmillan

What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material.

Alan Hollinghurst
Technique, Brilliant, Problem
Alan Hollinghurst (2014). “The Line of Beauty: Picador Classic”, p.73, Pan Macmillan

There was the noise itself, which he thought of vaguely as the noise of classical music, sameish and rhetorical, full of feelings people surely never had

Alan Hollinghurst
People, Feelings, Noise

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