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Pay attention to the things that agitate you. It will tell you a lot about yourself.

Terry McMillan

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Terry McMillan
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 18
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Port Huron
Michigan
Attention
Tell
Things
Agitate
Pay

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People like to run their mouths.
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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'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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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 don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.
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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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It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.
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People always have something to say about what you do and how you do it.
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My stories are character driven.
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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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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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What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and sometimes we marry them.
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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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I let my characters do the talking, simple as that.
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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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Wherever there's a prison, for the most part, especially where there's Black people, it's overcrowded. I don't know who really gets out.
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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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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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I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.
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don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!
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