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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.

Terry McMillan

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Terry McMillan
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 18
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Port Huron
Michigan
Truth
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Shelter
Writing
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Heart
Behinds
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don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!
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Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.
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I let my characters do the talking, simple as that.
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The best rush in the world is getting something at 80 percent off.
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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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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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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 like doing the readings and the autographing, but the interviewing gets a little tedious because you get asked the same questions every day and sometimes three or four times a day.
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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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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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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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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 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'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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