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Gloria Naylor Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 25, 1950 - September 28, 2016

Topics

Reputation My Own Write Own Willing

There's always going to be someone out there... who doesn't believe in you or who thinks your head is too big or you're not smart enough. But those are the people you need to ignore, and those are the times you need to just keep doing what you love doing.

Love Smart People Believe Doing You

Marines don't know how to spell the word 'defeat'.

Defeat Know Marines Word Spell How

My relationship with George Steinbrenner was great. He was the boss, and I accepted that.

Relationship Great Boss Accepted He

Whoever best serves the song is going to be served by the song.

Best Song Going Whoever Served

Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person.

Work Good Business Time Me I Can

I didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all.

Steven Spielberg

Career Now Reviews Older Read Them

I think a lot of Hollywood is in retreat right now trying to figure out how to make money and make the safest bets.

Money Think Trying Now Hollywood

What's funny is that an old Web site of mine just had one fake bio, and everyone went crazy for it. So when I made the new Web site, I thought, 'I just need to make this one even more absurd.'

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

Funny Crazy Thought Fake New Need

Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Today Mirror Alive Duty Hand Own

My representation overseas can't stand me doing theatre because it takes me out of action. But it's what I want to do. If it means passing up other possibilities, them's the breaks.

Me Theatre Action Stand Doing Want

I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.

Fear Candle Will No Fear Years Out

I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror.

Work Progress Now Horror Talk Like

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