Alan Hollinghurst famous quotes

03-24-2025

The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other.
-- Alan Hollinghurst
...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for.
-- Alan Hollinghurst

#Kind #Longing #Disdain
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
What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material, ...
-- Alan Hollinghurst

#Technique #Brilliant #Problem
The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo.
-- Alan Hollinghurst

#Great Wisdom #Tempo
I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive.
-- Alan Hollinghurst
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 #Vulgar
He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.
-- Alan Hollinghurst

#Unconditional Love #Compliment #Unconditional
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
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
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

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