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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
Writer
Port Huron
Michigan
Writing
Hide
Heart
Behinds
Behind
Inside
Words
Use
Truth
Find
Shelter

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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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People need to be re - sometimes we need to reinvent ourselves and then get reacquainted with our better selves.
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The best rush in the world is getting something at 80 percent off.
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Pay attention to the things that agitate you. It will tell you a lot about yourself.
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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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Back then I confused passions and orgasms with love. It look me years to realize the two weren't synonymous.
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Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.
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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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What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and sometimes we marry them.
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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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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 just believe that young people need to be able to learn how to write in their own voice. Just like a musician, you pride yourself on having your own distinct sound.
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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'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 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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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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Sometimes I cheat and buy things I used to make from scratch and just doctor them up.
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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 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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