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Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.

S. E. Hinton

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S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
Autobiographer
Film Actor
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Tulsa
Oklahoma
S. E. Hinton
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Read
Stuff
Anything
Trying
Work
Good

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Dally was so real he scared me.
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My boyfriend suggested I write two pages a day. He wouldn't take me out if I hadn't done my two pages. That's how I wrote my second novel.
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Some are going, some are staying....i'm in between.
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I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.
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It seemed funny that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two worlds we lived in weren’t so different. We saw the same sunset.
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What's the safest thing to be when one is met by a gang of social outcasts in an alley? ...No, another social outcast!
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I never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is some aspect of yourself.
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I gotta cut smoking or I'll never make track next year
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Y'all were heroes from the beginning. You just didn't 'turn' all of a sudden
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We couldn't get along without him. We needed Johnny as much as he needed the gang. And for the same reason.
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I am a greaser. I am a JD and a hood. I blacken the name of our fair city. I beat up people. I rob gas stations. I am a menace to society. Man do I have fun!
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let's do it for Johnny
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...people get hurt in rumbles, maybe killed. I'm sick of it because it doesn't do any good. You can't win...even if you whip us. You'll still be where you were before- at the bottom. And we'll still be the lucky ones with all the breaks. So it doesn't do any good, the fighting and the killing. It doesn't prove a thing.
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I'm a good judge of my own work.
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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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the person in this picture is really me.
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If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky
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You get tough like me and you don't get hurt. You look out for yourself and nothin' can touch you.
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