12+ Alan Hollinghurst Quotes On Religion, Education

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). Following is our collection on famous quotes by Alan Hollinghurst on love, life, religion.

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

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

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

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

I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive. — Alan Hollinghurst

Life Lessons by Alan Hollinghurst

1. Alan Hollinghurst's work emphasizes the importance of understanding and accepting the complexities of human relationships.
2. His novels illustrate the power of storytelling to explore and challenge the social norms and conventions of society.
3. 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.