Quotes by Alan Hollinghurst

About Alan Hollinghurst:

Alan James Hollinghurst 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.
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she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face.

Alan Hollinghurst

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.

Alan Hollinghurst

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.

Alan Hollinghurst

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

Now he had chanced on one of he standard hard-on sessions of the shower, as on both sides of him and across the room three queens sported horizontal members which they turned around from time to time to conceal or display, barely exchanging looks as ...

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The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other.

Alan Hollinghurst

Delight is délice, délit is a misdemeanour' 'Well, it's bloody close...' 'Well, they often are....

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He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.

Alan Hollinghurst

I can’t bear the smell of cigars, can you?” said Lady Partridge. “Lionel hates it too,” murmured Rachel. As did Nick, to whom the dry lavatorial stench of cigars signified the inexplicable confidence of other men’s tastes and habits, and th...

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Author Bio

  • NameAlan Hollinghurst
  • DescriptionEnglish novelist, poet, short story writer and translator
  • BornMay 26, 1954
  • CountryEngland
  • ProfessionLinguist; Poet; Novelist; Writer
  • WorksThe Swimming Pool Library; The Folding Star; The Spell; The Line Of Beauty
  • AwardsJames Tait Black Memorial Prize; Lambda Literary Award; Man Booker Prize; Eric Gregory Award