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I'm a good judge of my own work.

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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Judging
Work
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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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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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Get smart and nothing can touch you.
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I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.
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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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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 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
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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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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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Y'all were heroes from the beginning. You just didn't 'turn' all of a sudden
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let's do it for Johnny
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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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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 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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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 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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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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It's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too.
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...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.
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