Words matter. These are the best S. E. Hinton Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
My goal from being a child was to have a happy home life.
I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys’ books, but boys won’t read girls’ books. If you’re writing for a girl, you’ve got most of the audience on your side anyway.
I think that ‘The Outsiders’ was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.
More people thought I was strange because I was a teenage novelist, not because I was from Oklahoma. That’s where I got the looks like I was from the zoo.
The thing is, the Tulsa experience that I wrote about in ‘The Outsiders’ is closer to the universal experience than it would be if I wrote it from L.A. or New York. It’s an everyman story.
I always try to write the best I can.
Since I am first of all a character writer, that character’s emotions are as vivid to me as my own. I always begin with an emotion after I have established a character in my mind. I feel what they feel. I guess that is why it comes across so strongly.
I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
My husband and I get along great. We’re both introverts, and it’s hard to make new friends.
If people want to find me, they can. They’ll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocery store, looking to see what to buy for dinner.
My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
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.
I just felt being part of my peer group so strongly. I was immersed in teen culture, but not taken in by it.
I grew up here and my friends are here. There’s nothing wrong with here.
Movies can’t ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to read other books. I am all for it.
I find it to be easier to write from a man’s point of view.
I was a ‘young adult’ when I wrote ‘The Outsiders,’ although it was not a genre at the time. It’s an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.
How a piece ends is very important to me. It’s the last chance to leave an impression with the reader, the last shot at ‘nailing’ it. I love to write ending lines; usually, I know them first and write toward them, but if I knew how they came to me, I wouldn’t tell.
‘The Outsiders’ died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
