151 Quotes by Terry McMillan

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

She has a certain kind of power and sensuality and strength. The way I perceived Stella, she has it, ... And there's a softness in Angela that I don't think you've seen in other movies.

I'm also free to move forward since I'm now out of this hellish holding pattern my life has been spinning inside of for the past nine months.