Quote

People like to run their mouths.

Terry McMillan

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Terry McMillan
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 18
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Port Huron
Michigan
People
Mouths
Running
Like

More quotes by Terry McMillan

Image
People always have something to say about what you do and how you do it.
Terry McMillan
Image
What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and sometimes we marry them.
Terry McMillan
Image
My stories are character driven.
Terry McMillan
Image
I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other.
Terry McMillan
Image
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.
Terry McMillan
Image
Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.
Terry McMillan
Image
I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.
Terry McMillan
Image
I also discovered that you can get used to a man , much like you do a household pet!
Terry McMillan
Image
I don't trust white critics' judgment about most things that deal with black life, particularly when a black person is the creator.
Terry McMillan
Image
We never thought some guy would deliberately fill our hearts with brown sugar and then pour hot water all over it.
Terry McMillan
Image
People need to be re - sometimes we need to reinvent ourselves and then get reacquainted with our better selves.
Terry McMillan
Image
Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.
Terry McMillan
Image
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.
Terry McMillan
Image
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.
Terry McMillan
Image
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!)
Terry McMillan
Image
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.
Terry McMillan
Image
It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.
Terry McMillan
Image
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.
Terry McMillan
Image
Sometimes I cheat and buy things I used to make from scratch and just doctor them up.
Terry McMillan
Image
happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!
Terry McMillan