Alan Hollinghurst Quotes

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

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• I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores.

  

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• I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.

  

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• What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.

  

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• I'm quite adept at writing two or sometimes even three stories at once. So if I get stuck on one story, I switch the next and let my subconscious work on unraveling any plot problems from another story.

  

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• Arendt did have a certain snobbishness, though in some of her writing she expressed more democratic attitudes.

  

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• Nobody's going to write a book about me, because nobody's going to find anything worth writing a book about.

  

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• You will always see big, chunky bags around me. I have always been fond of bags. Bags are extremely essential because I keep my books in them.

  

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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.

  

  Alan Hollinghurst
  • Writing
  • Child
  • Self-Reliance