Quotes by Alex Shakar

About Alex Shakar:

Alex Shakar is an American novelist and short story writer. His novel Luminarium (Soho Press, 2011) received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Fiction. His first novel, The Savage Girl, was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book., was a Book Sense 76 Pick, and has been translated into six foreign languages.
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Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.

Alex Shakar

Cats are there to be indulged. That's their function: to receive the love we never fully gave our parents. Not like dogs. Dogs are there to give us the love and devotion our children will never fully give us.

Alex Shakar

On a cement pediment stands the inevitable bronze statue of a man in a cheap suit.

Alex Shakar

An ironic religion -- one that never claims to be absolutely true but only professes to be relatively beautiful, and never promises salvation but only proposes it as a salubrious idea. A century ago there were people who thought art was the thing tha...

Alex Shakar

Children, awkward, isolate, their bodies crammed to bursting with caffein and sugar and pop music and cologne and perfume and hairgel and pimple cream and growth hormone-treated hamburger meat and premature sex drives and costly, fleeting, violent su...

Alex Shakar

With the Internet, we can choose the very communities we want to be a part of.

Alex Shakar

You need contradictions to make an ideal.

Alex Shakar

That's the problem with relationships," George was saying. "It's a contract. You agree to be some unchanging caricature of yourself. To act the same way all the time. Never to change. It's counter-evolutionary. How can anything new and good come into...

Alex Shakar

He dozed off, into a dreamless oblivion, for what seemed like seconds but was in fact hours, and awoke hungover, the inner surface of his skull pulsing like a single, giant nerve being chewed by some ruminant animal.

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She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy.

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Author Bio

  • NameAlex Shakar
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • Born1968
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionAuthor; Novelist