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My stories are character driven.

Terry McMillan

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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
Driven
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I've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.
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What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and sometimes we marry them.
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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 also discovered that you can get used to a man , much like you do a household pet!
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The best rush in the world is getting something at 80 percent off.
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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 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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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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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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don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!
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Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.
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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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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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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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Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.
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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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happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!
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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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People need to be re - sometimes we need to reinvent ourselves and then get reacquainted with our better selves.
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We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our heart and we realize this fairy tale ain't fair. So we suffer.
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