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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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Novelist
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Port Huron
Michigan
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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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Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.
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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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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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Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.
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Pay attention to the things that agitate you. It will tell you a lot about yourself.
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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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What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and sometimes we marry them.
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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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don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!
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I've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.
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happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!
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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 want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.
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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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The best rush in the world is getting something at 80 percent off.
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I let my characters do the talking, simple as that.
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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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