Alan Hollinghurst Quotes
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He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.
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I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive.
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What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material.
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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.
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The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo.
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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.
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To apologize for what you most wanted to do, to concede that it was obnoxious, boring, 'vulgar and unsafe' - that was the worst thing.
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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.