S. E. Hinton Quotes

» 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.

» When I see a movie with someone it's kind of uncomfortable.

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

» I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.

» My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.

» Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.

» 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 one.

» Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.

» I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.

» I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

» I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.

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"The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech." - Francois de La Rochefoucauld