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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
Autobiographer
Film Actor
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
S. E. Hinton
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I wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.
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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 advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.
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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.
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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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