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Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

Terry McMillan

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Terry McMillan
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 18
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Port Huron
Michigan
Writing
Autobiographical
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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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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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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 take what people feel and think, especially when it's different from, very seriously, and I find it liberating.
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People like to run their mouths.
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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 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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What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and sometimes we marry them.
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Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.
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I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.
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happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!
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Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.
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People always have something to say about what you do and how you do it.
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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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