I think Quote by S. E. Hinton

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…

— S. E. Hinton

Writers tend to feel like outsiders.

— Jesse Armstrong

[The Outsiders] was all new to me. It's been fun to be a part of that ride, where it's become on the level of…

— Rob Lowe

Like many authors, I caught the writing bug during my teenage years. I don't remember the exact day or year, but I remember that…

— Ally Carter

Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.

— Mitski

I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing…

— Hallie Ephron

It was easy to believe, between lessons on Shakespeare and Dickens and Austen, that all of the great stories had already been written by…

— Ally Carter

I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically.

— James Herriot

I was not familiar with the book [before filming in The Outsiders] , though. Interestingly, The Outsiders had not reached the point where it…

— Rob Lowe

You have to be an outsider to write,

— Martin Cruz Smith

I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.

— John Irving

The thing is, the Tulsa experience that I wrote about in 'The Outsiders' is closer to the universal experience than it would be if…

— S. E. Hinton