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
brother new-york together
You take up for your buddies, no matter what they do. When you're a gang, you stick up for the members. If you don't stick up for them, stick together, make like brothers, it isn't a gang anymore. It's a pack. A snarling, distrustful, bickering park like the Socs in their social clubs or the street gangs in New York or the wolves in the timber.
sunset kids thinking
I've been thinking about it, and that poem, that guy that wrote it, he meant you're gold when you're a kid, like green. When you're a kid everything's new, dawn. It's just when you get used to everything that it's day. Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That's gold. Keep that way, it's a good way to be.
eye glowing southern
Johnny almost grinned as he nodded. "Tuff enough," he managed, and by the way his eyes were glowing, I figured Southern gentlemen had nothing on Johnny Cade.
rough
Things are rough all over.
sick trying hey
... Hey, I didn't know you didn't like baloney." I went cold. "I don't like it. I never liked it." Soda just looked at me. "You used to eat it. That's why you wouldn't eat anything while you were sick. You kept saying you didn't like baloney, no matter what it was we were trying to get you to eat." "I don't like it," I repeated.
teenage might teenage-life
I was desperate for something to read that dealt realistically with teenage life, and I thought others might be, too.
arriving attendance christmas people yesterday
We doubled our attendance yesterday from Christmas Day. I think people are still arriving and that it is going to keep getting busier.
coming learning listen shows
We're always coming away from shows and learning something new, and we always listen and learn.
dry few goes older points quick season spells
We just kind of go through dry spells occasionally, and we would give up a few quick points here and there. You want to get older as the season goes on, but occasionally we still show how young we are.
finish hoping open park portions terrain trying
We're working with what he have and trying to make as much as we can. Crews are hoping to finish portions of the mountain's terrain park and open by this weekend.
five gave good minutes points second third
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.
We're just going to go out there and see what happens.
court game half pressure took
We were able to pressure them, and they wanted to play a half-court game. We took them out of their half court game as much as we could by pressing them pretty much the whole night.
gave good opened push quick
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.