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My stories are character driven.

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Terry McMillan
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 18
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Port Huron
Michigan
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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 let my characters do the talking, simple as that.
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People like to run their mouths.
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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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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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I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.
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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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Sometimes I cheat and buy things I used to make from scratch and just doctor them up.
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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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Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.
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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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It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.
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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 would like to think that as a result of not just my own experiences, but at least being empathetic and compassionate about other people's experiences and plights and tragedies, that I am affected by it and learn from 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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The best rush in the world is getting something at 80 percent off.
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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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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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happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!
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