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.
The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other. - Alan Hollinghurst
The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other.
- Alan Hollinghurst
I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive. - Alan Hollinghurst
I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive.
she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face. - Alan Hollinghurst
she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face.
...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for. - Alan Hollinghurst
...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for.
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
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.
What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material. - Alan Hollinghurst
What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material.
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 wa… - Alan Hollinghurst
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 wa…
He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love. - Alan Hollinghurst
He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.
Now that I had actually made love, more astonishingly now that I had been made love to, the fantasies were subtly undermined. - Alan Hollinghurst
Now that I had actually made love, more astonishingly now that I had been made love to, the fantasies were subtly undermined.
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