Taken Quotes by S. E. Hinton

I learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there.

— S. E. Hinton

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…

— S. E. Hinton

Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.

— S. E. Hinton

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…

— S. E. Hinton

Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to…

— S. E. Hinton

I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here.

— S. E. Hinton

I find it to be easier to write from a man's point of view.

— S. E. Hinton

Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.

— S. E. Hinton

My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.

— S. E. Hinton

'The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They…

— S. E. Hinton

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…

— S. E. Hinton

When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul…

— S. E. Hinton