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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.

S. E. Hinton

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S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
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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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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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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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But Dally, heaters kill people! Ya' kill 'em with switchblades to, don'tcha?
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Mace, you never read Smoky the Cowhorse,did you? No. Well,ol' Smoky, he had somebad things happen to him,had the heart knocked clean out of him.But he hung on and came out of it okay.I've been bashed up pretty good,Mason, but I'm going to make it.
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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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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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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 seemed funny that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two worlds we lived in weren’t so different. We saw the same sunset.
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Dally was so real he scared me.
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...people get hurt in rumbles, maybe killed. I'm sick of it because it doesn't do any good. You can't win...even if you whip us. You'll still be where you were before- at the bottom. And we'll still be the lucky ones with all the breaks. So it doesn't do any good, the fighting and the killing. It doesn't prove a thing.
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...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.
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