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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.

S. E. Hinton

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S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
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But Dally, heaters kill people! Ya' kill 'em with switchblades to, don'tcha?
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Y'all were heroes from the beginning. You just didn't 'turn' all of a sudden
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You know a guy a longtime, and I mean really know him, you don't get used to the idea that he's dead just overnight.
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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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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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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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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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I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.
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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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Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
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let's do it for Johnny
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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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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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...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 guess I just couldn't see standing there -- alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being -- one second, and dead the next. It really bothered me. Death by violence isn't the same as dying any other way, accident or disease or old age. It just ain't the same.
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They shouldn't hate each other . . . I don't hate the Socs any more . . . they shouldn't hate . . .
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He sure put things into words good.
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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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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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