Quotes by Terry McMillan

Terry McMillan

As a writer, you get to bring attention to something without preaching. I don’t believe in being didactic. So if you dramatize something, you automatically bring attention to it if people read it.

Attention

Believe

People

As far as young kids go, my primary interest is to get parents to read to their kids. That’s about the most you can do, I think.

Kids

Parent

Thinking

Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple careers: I’ve been a teacher. A chauffeur. A chef. An interior decorator. A landscape architect, as well as a gardener. I’ve been a painter. A personal shopper. An accountant and a banker. I’ve been a beautician. Santa Claus. The Tooth Fairy. A movie reviewer. A nurse. A psychologist. A negotiator. An I have a Ph. D in How to Pretend Like You Don’t Mind.

Careers

Mother

Teacher

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!)

Advice

Doe

Writing

don’t sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!

Greatness

Sabotage

Succumbing

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

Bedtime

Willing

Writing

happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!

Amount

Behinds

Certain

I can’t stand that – those women in ‘Waiting to Exhale’ now. I can’t stand them. But that’s because I’m 53 and not 33. But what they were experiencing at 33, I identified with it.

I Can

Waiting

I don’t trust white critics’ judgment about most things that deal with black life, particularly when a black person is the creator.

Black

Judgment

White

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.

Mouths

Speak

Years

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Attention

Basketball

Bedtime

Behind Your Back

Behinds

Believe

Black

Boys

Careers

Certain

Character

Children

Class

Computer

Different

Doctors

Doe

Driven

Feels

Firsts

Football

Giving

Greatness

Guilty

Guy

Heart

Home

House

I Can

Information

Inspirational

Jigsaw Puzzles

Judgment

Kids

Levels

Life Is Like

Light

Littles

Looks

Men

Mother

Mouths

Names

Needs

Parent

People

Percent

Pride

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Quotes by Terry McMillan

Terry McMillan

As a writer, you get to bring attention to something without preaching. I don’t believe in being didactic. So if you dramatize something, you automatically bring attention to it if people read it.

As far as young kids go, my primary interest is to get parents to read to their kids. That’s about the most you can do, I think.

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!)

don’t sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!

I can’t stand that – those women in ‘Waiting to Exhale’ now. I can’t stand them. But that’s because I’m 53 and not 33. But what they were experiencing at 33, I identified with it.

I don’t trust white critics’ judgment about most things that deal with black life, particularly when a black person is the creator.

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.

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