Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Alan Hollinghurst

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English novelist Alan Hollinghurst.

Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Alan James Hollinghurst is an English novelist, poet, short story writer and translator. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 1989 Somerset Maugham Award, the 1994 James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the 2004 Booker Prize.

English - Novelist | Born: May 26, 1954

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I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive.

Alan Hollinghurst

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

Alan Hollinghurst

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

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

Alan Hollinghurst

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

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

Alan Hollinghurst

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

Alan Hollinghurst

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

Alan Hollinghurst

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

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

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.