Gloria Naylor (born January 25, 1950) is an American novelist. Read full biography of Gloria Naylor →
I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.
Spoiled. That's all it's about - can't live without this, can't live without that. You can live without anything you weren't born... →
Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.
Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.
You can't teach talent. You can't put in what God left out - but you can teach confidence.
Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.
I realize at one point, that I was being followed, and then I began to see the surveillance that was going past the road on my house. And so, these... →
I wrote what I felt I had to write, and I'm willing to put my own sanity and my reputation behind it.
The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all; to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they... →
One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.
Life is accepting what is and working from that.
Gloria Naylor (born January 25, 1950) is an American novelist.