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
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We had a really good second half. We had to do it on defense. We gave up just two points in the first five minutes of the third quarter.
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What he gave us was a lot of rebounding and push at the basket. He has a very good quick step, which allows him to get to the basket, and that opened up a lot of things for the other guys, as well.
died drugstore
'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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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 life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.
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My husband and I get along great. We're both introverts, and it's hard to make new friends.
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How a piece ends is very important to me. It's the last chance to leave an impression with the reader, the last shot at 'nailing' it. I love to write ending lines; usually, I know them first and write toward them, but if I knew how they came to me, I wouldn't tell.
relationships
Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.
When I see a movie with someone it's kind of uncomfortable.
closer everyman experience
The thing is, the Tulsa experience that I wrote about in 'The Outsiders' is closer to the universal experience than it would be if I wrote it from L.A. or New York. It's an everyman story.
I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.
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Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to read other books. I am all for it.
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I could write and help a lot of kids, or teach and help a few and go nuts.
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I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here.
dating genders
When I was in high school, the genders were so separate from each other. If you weren't 'dating' somebody, you couldn't just be friends with somebody.