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I wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.

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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Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one.
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Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
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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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... Hey, I didn't know you didn't like baloney. I went cold. I don't like it. I never liked it. Soda just looked at me. You used to eat it. That's why you wouldn't eat anything while you were sick. You kept saying you didn't like baloney, no matter what it was we were trying to get you to eat. I don't like it, I repeated.
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He sure put things into words good.
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You know the rules. No jazz before a rumble.
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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 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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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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Nothing sparkly can stay.
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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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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 go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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I don't know why I go to school unless for kicks, oh well might as well do dissect a frog.
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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 really do like listening to stuff that's happened to other people. I guess that's why I like to read.
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You know what the crummiest feeling you can have is? To hate the person you love the best in the world.
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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'm a good judge of my own work.
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the person in this picture is really me.
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