Alan Hollinghurst Quotes

United Kingdom, Writer
May 26, 1954

Alan James Hollinghurst FRSL 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.

Also known as Novelist, Poet

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
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
- Wisdom
- Writers
- 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.

Alan Hollinghurst
- Child
- Naughty
- Get Away
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
- Worst
- Apologize
- Concede
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