S E Hinton Quotes

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• I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.
• If you enjoy reading something, read it.
• I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.
• I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
• Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
• 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…
• I made up my mind that I'd get out of that place and I didI learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just…
• It was too vast a problem to be just a personal thing. There should be some help, someone should tell them before it was too…
• It ain't fair that we have all the rough breaks!
• I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
• 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…
• 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…
• Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
• I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
• I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.
• let's do it for Johnny
• Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.
• Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too.
• the person in this picture is really me.
• I guess I just couldn't see standing there -- alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being -- one second, and dead the next. It really bothered me.…

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