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
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.
mother father men
My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.
tell-me-the-truth wanted
All my life I wanted somebody who knew more than I did to tell me the truth.
reading enjoy ifs
If you enjoy reading something, read it.
writing thinking outsiders
I think that The Outsiders was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.
names helping
I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
writing thinking two
If you want to be a writer, I have two pieces of advice. One is to be a reader. I think that's one of the most important parts of learning to write. The other piece of advice is 'Just do it!' Don't think about it, don't agonize, sit down and write.
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.
boys hair oil
It was too vast a problem to be just a personal thing. There should be some help, someone should tell them before it was too late. Someone should tell their side of the story, and maybe people would understand then, and wouldn’t be so quick to judge a boy by the amount of hair oil he wore.
break rough fairs
It ain't fair that we have all the rough breaks!
writing thinking narrators
I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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.
fun real pride
I had it then. Soda fought for fun, Steve for hatred, Darry for pride, and Two-Bit for conformity. Why do I fight? I thought, and couldn't think of any real good reason. There isn't any real good reason for fighting except self-defense.
He sure put things into words good.