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My stories are character driven.

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Terry McMillan
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 18
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Port Huron
Michigan
Character
Driven
Stories

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don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!
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I let my characters do the talking, simple as that.
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I'm not trying to be a middle aged centerfold, I just want to look at myself naked and not be disgusted.
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Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.
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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 want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.
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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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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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Pay attention to the things that agitate you. It will tell you a lot about yourself.
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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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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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Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.
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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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Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.
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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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People like to run their mouths.
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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 take what people feel and think, especially when it's different from, very seriously, and I find it liberating.
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People always have something to say about what you do and how you do it.
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