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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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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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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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If you enjoy reading something, read it.
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You know the rules. No jazz before a rumble.
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Greasers will still be greasers and Socs will still be Socs. Sometimes I think it's the ones in the middle that are really the lucky stiffs.
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Some are going, some are staying....i'm in between.
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I don't know why I go to school unless for kicks, oh well might as well do dissect a frog.
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Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
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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 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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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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I'm a good judge of my own 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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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 knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.
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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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He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.
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I gotta cut smoking or I'll never make track next year
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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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That's why people don't ever think to blame the Socs and are always ready to jump on us. We look hoody and they look decent. It could be just the other way around - half of the hoods I know are pretty decent guys underneath all that grease, and from what I've heard, a lot of Socs are just cold-blooded mean - but people usually go by looks.
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