Gloria Naylor Quotes & Sayings

“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 with, and you can make it through on even half of that.”

“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.”

“Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.”

“Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.”

“Life is accepting what is and working from that.”

“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.”

“One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.”

“I wrote what I felt I had to write, and I'm willing to put my own sanity and my reputation behind it.”