S. E. Hinton
S. E. Hinton
Susan Eloise Hintonis an American writer best known for her young-adult novels set in Oklahoma, especially The Outsiders, which she wrote during high school. In 1988 she received the inaugural Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association for her cumulative contribution in writing for teens...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth22 July 1948
CountryUnited States of America
movie home two
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.
staying
Some are going, some are staying....i'm in between.
hero turns
Y'all were heroes from the beginning. You just didn't 'turn' all of a sudden
tell-me-the-truth wanted
All my life I wanted somebody who knew more than I did to tell me the truth.
mind want hell
I learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there.
someday desperate violent
He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.
beautiful believe kids
California is like a beautiful wild kid on heroin, high as a kite and thinking she's on top of the world, not knowing she's dying, not believing it even if you show her the marks.
mind want hell
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 make up your mind and work like hell til you get there. If you want to go somewhere in life, you just have to work till you make it.
names helping
I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
males close-friends
I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.
reading enjoy ifs
If you enjoy reading something, read it.
break rough fairs
It ain't fair that we have all the rough breaks!
would-be outsiders wanted
...I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.
names race perfect
Rat race is the perfect name for it,' she said. 'We're always going and going and going, and never asking where. Did you ever hear of having more than you wanted? So that you couldn't want anything else and then started looking for something else to want? It seems like we're always searching for something to satisfy is, and never finding it. Maybe if we could lose our cool we would.