Quote

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

S. E. Hinton

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
Autobiographer
Film Actor
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Tulsa
Oklahoma
S. E. Hinton
Book
Ruin
Ruins
Movies
Books

More quotes by S. E. Hinton

Image
I wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.
S. E. Hinton
Image
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.
S. E. Hinton
Image
Dally was so real he scared me.
S. E. Hinton
Image
I'm a good judge of my own work.
S. E. Hinton
Image
I used to be sure of things. Me, once i had all the answers. I wish i was a kid again, when i had all the answers
S. E. Hinton
Image
I don't know why I go to school unless for kicks, oh well might as well do dissect a frog.
S. E. Hinton
Image
I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
S. E. Hinton
Image
You get tough like me and you don't get hurt. You look out for yourself and nothin' can touch you.
S. E. Hinton
Image
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.
S. E. Hinton
Image
It's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too.
S. E. Hinton
Image
Get smart and nothing can touch you.
S. E. Hinton
Image
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.
S. E. Hinton
Image
Some are going, some are staying....i'm in between.
S. E. Hinton
Image
the person in this picture is really me.
S. E. Hinton
Image
I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.
S. E. Hinton
Image
If you enjoy reading something, read it.
S. E. Hinton
Image
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.
S. E. Hinton
Image
let's do it for Johnny
S. E. Hinton
Image
Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
S. E. Hinton
Image
Mace, you never read Smoky the Cowhorse,did you? No. Well,ol' Smoky, he had somebad things happen to him,had the heart knocked clean out of him.But he hung on and came out of it okay.I've been bashed up pretty good,Mason, but I'm going to make it.
S. E. Hinton