Quotes by : Alan Hollinghurst

After that they browsed for a minute or two in a semi-detached fashion. Nick found a set of Trollope....

She felt that at some point she must finally and formally talk to Louisa about Hubert, and ask her to....

There is a sort of aesthetic poverty about conservatism

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....

I can’t bear the smell of cigars, can you?” said Lady Partridge. “Lionel hates it too,” murmured....

She felt something similar, but worse in a way, about hundreds and hundreds of books she’d read, novels,....

He was asking for memories, too young himself to know that memories were only memories of memories.

she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly....

On the stairs he was crying so much he hardly saw where he was going - not a mad boo-hoo but wailing....