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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.

Terry McMillan

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Terry McMillan
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 18
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Port Huron
Michigan
Sometimes
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Like
Four
Reading
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Interviewing
Three
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Littles
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I let my characters do the talking, simple as that.
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I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.
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