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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
Screenwriter
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Port Huron
Michigan
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What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and sometimes we marry them.
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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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happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!
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I want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.
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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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Back then I confused passions and orgasms with love. It look me years to realize the two weren't synonymous.
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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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I used to get a lot of letters from prisoners. It used to get on my nerves. Especially family members. Everybody's innocent.
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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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Pay attention to the things that agitate you. It will tell you a lot about yourself.
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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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I let my characters do the talking, simple as that.
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Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.
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Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.
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People always have something to say about what you do and how you do it.
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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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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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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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People like to run their mouths.
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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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