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I want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.

Terry McMillan

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Terry McMillan
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 18
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Port Huron
Michigan
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Cruising the Internet doesn't count as writing. Neither does answering e-mail. Before you check Twitter & FB and do other similar tasks that get in the way of writing, write first. (I really need to take my own advice here!)
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I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other.
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I just believe that young people need to be able to learn how to write in their own voice. Just like a musician, you pride yourself on having your own distinct sound.
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We never thought some guy would deliberately fill our hearts with brown sugar and then pour hot water all over it.
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It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.
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I like doing the readings and the autographing, but the interviewing gets a little tedious because you get asked the same questions every day and sometimes three or four times a day.
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I let my characters do the talking, simple as that.
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I was tired of chasing ghosts, hollow men who were outside my comfort zone, men who had nothing to give me except a rush. It was all I asked for, and all I ever got.
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I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.
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I don't trust white critics' judgment about most things that deal with black life, particularly when a black person is the creator.
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The best rush in the world is getting something at 80 percent off.
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Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.
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People need to be re - sometimes we need to reinvent ourselves and then get reacquainted with our better selves.
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I've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.
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Writing is my shelter. I don't hide behind the words I use them to dig inside my heart to find the truth.
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Back then I confused passions and orgasms with love. It look me years to realize the two weren't synonymous.
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Pay attention to the things that agitate you. It will tell you a lot about yourself.
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happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!
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Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.
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