Quotes from Terry McMillan

money does not guarantee happiness or peace of mind, it can take your mind off things, distract you, but it can't replace the generic stuff a person needs!

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

Write from your heart, and God will take care of the rest.

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

My mama taught me that anything worth doing in life should be a little scary.

I don't live my life as a writer. I'm a mother, an African-American woman, and I do everything that everybody else does - cook and a little bit of cleaning.

It takes me forever to say my prayers these days, but I don't care, because this time around, I want to make sure God doesn't have to do any guesswork.

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'm a fast writer.

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

People need to be re - sometimes we need to reinvent ourselves and then get reacquainted with our better selves.

Every human being I know craves love and affection.

life is like a jigsaw puzzle, you have to see the whole picture, then put it together piece by piece!

I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other.

Let me put it this way: when I read, I learned the world was not as small as my house. And that everybody in my home town was not representative of the way people in the world were raised. And that was what saved me.

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

Writing is my shelter. I don't hide behind the words; I use them to dig inside my heart to find the truth.

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.

I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.

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.

It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.

What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and sometimes we marry them.

We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our heart and we realize this fairy tale ain't fair. So we suffer.

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.