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I really do like listening to stuff that's happened to other people. I guess that's why I like to read.
S. E. Hinton
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S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
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If you want to be a writer, I have two pieces of advice. One is to be a reader. I think that's one of the most important parts of learning to write. The other piece of advice is 'Just do it!' Don't think about it, don't agonize, sit down and write.
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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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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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They used to be buddies, I thought, they used to be friends, and now they hate each other because one has to work for a living and the other comes from the West Side. They shouldn't hate each other.
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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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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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I learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there.
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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 was too vast a problem to be just a personal thing. There should be some help, someone should tell them before it was too late. Someone should tell their side of the story, and maybe people would understand then, and wouldn’t be so quick to judge a boy by the amount of hair oil he wore.
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I made up my mind that I'd get out of that place and I didI learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there. If you want to go somewhere in life, you just have to work till you make it.
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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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It's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too.
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...I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.
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