Alan Hollinghurst Quotes
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.
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
He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.
she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face.
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.
Now that I had actually made love, more astonishingly now that I had been made love to, the fantasies were subtly undermined.
To apologize for what you most wanted to do, to concede that it was obnoxious, boring, 'vulgar and unsafe' --- that was the worst thing.
On the stairs he was crying so much he hardly saw where he was going - not a mad boo-hoo but wailing sheets of tears, shaken into funny groans by the bump of each step as he hurried down.
She felt that at some point she must finally and formally talk to Louisa about Hubert, and ask her to acknowledge that the worst possible thing had happened to her as well.
He was asking for memories, too young himself to know that memories were only memories of memories.
Delight is délice, délit is a misdemeanour''Well, it's bloody close...''Well, they often are....
Andrew Davies has said he prefers his authors dead, and I can see there is only a limited usefulness in a live one when it comes to adaptation.
