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I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.

S. E. Hinton

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S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
Autobiographer
Film Actor
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
S. E. Hinton
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Oneself
Nobody
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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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Greasers will still be greasers and Socs will still be Socs. Sometimes I think it's the ones in the middle that are really the lucky stiffs.
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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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Dally was so real he scared me.
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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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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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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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Johnny almost grinned as he nodded. Tuff enough, he managed, and by the way his eyes were glowing, I figured Southern gentlemen had nothing on Johnny Cade.
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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 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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He sure put things into words good.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.
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He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.
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