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

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Terry McMillan
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 18
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Port Huron
Michigan
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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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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 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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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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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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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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My stories are character driven.
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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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I take what people feel and think, especially when it's different from, very seriously, and I find it liberating.
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People always have something to say about what you do and how you do it.
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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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People like to run their mouths.
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Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.
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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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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'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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Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.
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Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.
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We never thought some guy would deliberately fill our hearts with brown sugar and then pour hot water all over 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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