Alan Hollinghurst is an English novelist, poet, and short story writer. He is best known for his 2004 novel The Line of Beauty, which won the Man Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. His other works include The Swimming-Pool Library (1988), The Folding Star (1994), and The Spell (1998).
What is the most famous quote by 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
What can you learn from Alan Hollinghurst (Life Lessons)
- Alan Hollinghurst's work emphasizes the importance of understanding and accepting the complexities of human relationships.
- His novels illustrate the power of storytelling to explore and challenge the social norms and conventions of society.
- His work highlights the need to recognize the intersectionality of gender, sexuality, class, and race in order to create a more equitable and just world.
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What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material.
The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own 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.
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
The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other.
Now that I had actually made love, more astonishingly now that I had been made love to, the fantasies were subtly undermined.
she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face.
He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.
Stylish quotes by 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.
...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for.