Gloria Naylor
Gloria Naylor
Gloria Nayloris an American novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 January 1950
CountryUnited States of America
Gloria Naylor quotes about
mother-daughter fathers-day dad
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.
true-power giving consensus
Words themselves are innocuous; it is the consensus that gives them true power.
writing creative able
One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.
drama eye passion
I don't want to write without a sense of drama, without passion, or without both eyes open to the world around me.
blessed body calm
It's as if I've arrived in a place where it's all spirit and no body -- an overwhelming sense of calm . . . I actually began to feel blessed.
disrespect pity mates
Contempt mates well with pity.
jobs work doors
Six months of looking for a job had made me an expert at picking out the people who, like me, were hurrying up to wait - in somebody's outer anything for a chance to make it through their inner doors to prove that you could type two words a minute, or not drool on your blouse while answering difficult questions about your middle initial and date of birth.
dream stars heaven
a star dies in heaven every time you snatch away someone's dream.
technology two world
In a contest between new technology and old ways of life, it is the traditional rhythms that will hold. Traditional societies make up more than two-thirds of the world, the two-thirds that will not be going online to "save" time but will remain wedded to the knowledge that if the bus doesn't come that day, it will come someday. After all, there is nothing but time.
world alphabet stopping
Once I unlocked the mystery of the alphabet that led to words, a multitude of words connecting me to the world, there was no stopping me.
father son daddy
Old as he was, he still missed his daddy sometimes.
home knowing long
Home. It's being new and old all rolled into one. Measuring your new against old friends, old ways, old places, Knowing that as long as the old survives, you can keep changing as much as you want without the nightmare of waking up to a total stranger.
writing clue truth-is
Why do I write? The truth, the unvarnished truth, is that I haven't a clue.
writing artist america
There is a problem in America. An Irish or Polish American can write a story and it's an American story. When a Black American writes a story, it's called a Black story. I take exception to that. Every artist has articulated to his own experience. The problem is that some people do not see Blacks as Americans.