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
writing years people
All of a sudden it felt like people were peering over my shoulder, wondering what I would write next. I was blocked for four years.
teenage might teenage-life
I was desperate for something to read that dealt realistically with teenage life, and I thought others might be, too.
real character writing
I never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is some aspect of yourself.
judging good-judges my-own
I'm a good judge of my own work.
okay
Okay greasers,you've had it.
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.
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!