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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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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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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 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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Y'all were heroes from the beginning. You just didn't 'turn' all of a sudden
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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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let's do it for Johnny
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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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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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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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Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
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Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane.
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the person in this picture is really me.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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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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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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If you enjoy reading something, read it.
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He sure put things into words good.
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