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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.

S. E. Hinton

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S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
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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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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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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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let's do it for Johnny
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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 advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.
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Johnny almost grinned as he nodded. Tuff enough, he managed, and by the way his eyes were glowing, I figured Southern gentlemen had nothing on Johnny Cade.
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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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...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.
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I gotta cut smoking or I'll never make track next year
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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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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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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 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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Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane.
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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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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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Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
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You know the rules. No jazz before a rumble.
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