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I let my characters do the talking, simple as that.

Terry McMillan

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Terry McMillan
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 18
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Novelist
Screenwriter
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Port Huron
Michigan
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Simple

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My stories are character driven.
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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 don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.
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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 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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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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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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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 want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.
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Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.
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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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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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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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At least be a nice lesbian or you're going to give the rest a bad rap.
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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 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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Pay attention to the things that agitate you. It will tell you a lot about yourself.
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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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