Gloria Naylor

You can't teach talent. You can't put in what God left out - but you can teach confidence. ↗

— Gloria Naylor

#god #left #out #put #talent

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

— Gloria Naylor

#entire #find #first #novel #return

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

— Gloria Naylor

#eloquent #only #song #story #telling

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. ↗

— Gloria Naylor

#anything #born #even #half #live

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. ↗

— Gloria Naylor

#either #feel #feel good #good #i