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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
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Port Huron
Michigan
Autobiographical
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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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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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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 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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Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.
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It goes without saying that your friends are usually the first to discuss your personal business behind your back.
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I've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.
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I let my characters do the talking, simple as that.
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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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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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I also discovered that you can get used to a man , much like you do a household pet!
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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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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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I been saying it for years: church is full of sneaky men posing as honest souls, and they are perpetuators our here looking for women just like you, with giant holes in your hearts, and they can smell when you got a good job and when you lonely as hell.
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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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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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People always have something to say about what you do and how you do it.
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Sometimes I cheat and buy things I used to make from scratch and just doctor them up.
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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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