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Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.

Terry McMillan

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Terry McMillan
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 18
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Port Huron
Michigan
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Parents can ruin children, and sometimes that's a learned behavior. Sometimes you can't blame your parents for it, sometimes you can. I think to me, that's what the whole paradox is, is people that have children that don't even know how to raise them.
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money does not guarantee happiness or peace of mind, it can take your mind off things, distract you, but it can't replace the generic stuff a person needs!
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I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.
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I want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.
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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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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 also discovered that you can get used to a man , much like you do a household pet!
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I love writing in first person more than third. I have to basically suspend my own world. I don't exist. I'm just a conduit. So I can be eight years old. I can be the mother of a kid that you find out certain things I'm not going to say.
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I've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.
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You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way.
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Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.
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I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like one.
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I let my characters do the talking, simple as that.
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The best rush in the world is getting something at 80 percent off.
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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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What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and sometimes we marry them.
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We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our heart and we realize this fairy tale ain't fair. So we suffer.
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Wherever there's a prison, for the most part, especially where there's Black people, it's overcrowded. I don't know who really gets out.
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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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