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I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.

Terry McMillan

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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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I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.
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happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!
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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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It goes without saying that your friends are usually the first to discuss your personal business behind your back.
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I want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.
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I've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.
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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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What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and sometimes we marry them.
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I let my characters do the talking, simple as that.
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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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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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The best rush in the world is getting something at 80 percent off.
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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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