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
males close-friends
I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.
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.
gold outsiders socs
Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.
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.
kids wish answers
I wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.
crazy thinking stills
I didn't think much about that statement then. But later I would-I still do. I think about it and think about it until I think I'm going crazy.
gang outcast social
What's the safest thing to be when one is met by a gang of social outcasts in an alley? ...No, another social outcast!
hurt fighting winning
...people get hurt in rumbles, maybe killed. I'm sick of it because it doesn't do any good. You can't win...even if you whip us. You'll still be where you were before- at the bottom. And we'll still be the lucky ones with all the breaks. So it doesn't do any good, the fighting and the killing. It doesn't prove a thing.
guy way outsiders
Things were rough all over, but it was better that way. That way you could tell the other guy was human too.
mean thinking people
That's why people don't ever think to blame the Socs and are always ready to jump on us. We look hoody and they look decent. It could be just the other way around - half of the hoods I know are pretty decent guys underneath all that grease, and from what I've heard, a lot of Socs are just cold-blooded mean - but people usually go by looks.
hate west sides
They used to be buddies, I thought, they used to be friends, and now they hate each other because one has to work for a living and the other comes from the West Side. They shouldn't hate each other...
people seventeen
Asleep, he looked a lot younger than going-on-seventeen, but I had noticed that Johnny looked younger when he was asleep too, so I figured everyone did. Maybe people are younger when they are asleep.
people ems
But Dally, heaters kill people! Ya' kill 'em with switchblades to, don'tcha?