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People always have something to say about what you do and how you do it.

Terry McMillan

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

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happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!
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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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People need to be re - sometimes we need to reinvent ourselves and then get reacquainted with our better selves.
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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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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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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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I've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.
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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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My stories are character driven.
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Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.
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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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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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People like to run their mouths.
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Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.
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I let my characters do the talking, simple as that.
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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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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 take what people feel and think, especially when it's different from, very seriously, and I find it liberating.
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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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