Latest Terry McMillan Quotes from Interviews

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• 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.

  Terry McMillan

  Believe, People, Attention

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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

  People, Black, Prison

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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.

  Terry McMillan

  Children, Thinking, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Terry McMillan

  Thinking, People, Different

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Terry McMillan

  Nerves, Letters, Innocent

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Terry McMillan

  People

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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

  Mother, Kids, Writing

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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.

  Terry McMillan

  Years, Mouths, Speak

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.

  Terry McMillan

  Children, Parent, Vices

  Source: www.pbs.org

• People like to run their mouths.

  Terry McMillan

  Running, People, Mouths

  Source: www.pbs.org