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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.

S. E. Hinton

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S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
Autobiographer
Film Actor
Novelist
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
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I gotta cut smoking or I'll never make track next year
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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 advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.
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Dally was so real he scared me.
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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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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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Get smart and nothing can touch you.
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He sure put things into words good.
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I wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.
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If you enjoy reading something, read it.
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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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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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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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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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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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He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.
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...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.
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Asleep, he looked a lot younger than going-on-seventeen, but I had noticed that Johnny looked younger when he was asleep too, so I figured everyone did. Maybe people are younger when they are asleep.
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That's why people don't ever think to blame the Socs and are always ready to jump on us. We look hoody and they look decent. It could be just the other way around - half of the hoods I know are pretty decent guys underneath all that grease, and from what I've heard, a lot of Socs are just cold-blooded mean - but people usually go by looks.
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