S. E. Hinton Quotes
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You know a guy a longtime, and I mean really know him, you don't get used to the idea that he's dead just overnight.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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'The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality.
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You take up for your buddies, no matter what they do. When you're a gang, you stick up for the members. If you don't stick up for them, stick together, make like brothers, it isn't a gang anymore. It's a pack. A snarling, distrustful, bickering park like the Socs in their social clubs or the street gangs in New York or the wolves in the timber.
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They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.
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I always try to write the best I can.
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Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.
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I've been thinking about it, and that poem, that guy that wrote it, he meant you're gold when you're a kid, like green. When you're a kid everything's new, dawn. It's just when you get used to everything that it's day. Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That's gold. Keep that way, it's a good way to be.
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When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girls' books. If you're writing for a girl, you've got most of the audience on your side anyway.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
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My goal from being a child was to have a happy home life.
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I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here.
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My husband and I get along great. We're both introverts, and it's hard to make new friends.
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I could write and help a lot of kids, or teach and help a few and go nuts.
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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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When I see a movie with someone it's kind of uncomfortable.
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I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.
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I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
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My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.
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I find it to be easier to write from a man's point of view.
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I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.