Terry McMillan Quotes - Page 3

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.

I also discovered that you can get used to a man , much like you do a household pet!

You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way.

I have a big mouth, and over the years, as the eldest of five, I have had a tendency to speak when no one really cared.

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.

You've been killing me inside and I don't want to die like this.

There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes the work seem like a fluke and not seem worthy of all the attention it's getting.

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!)

The best rush in the world is getting something at 80 percent off.

I'm not an angry woman. I'm not bitter.

I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.

At least be a nice lesbian or you're going to give the rest a bad rap.

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.

I've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.

It's sad to think that we've gotten to this, that we actually have to think about how to go about finding a man. But what's even sadder is that some men make you feel guilty for looking.

Now, I've been known to be attractive on special occasions, and I do my best to project as much beauty as I can muster from deep inside, though I often fail.

My stories are character driven.

I used to get a lot of letters from prisoners. It used to get on my nerves. Especially family members. Everybody's innocent.

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.

I take what people feel and think, especially when it's different from, very seriously, and I find it liberating.