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
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.
would-be outsiders wanted
...I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.
hero turns
Y'all were heroes from the beginning. You just didn't 'turn' all of a sudden
someday desperate violent
He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.
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.
mean ideas guy
You know a guy a longtime, and I mean really know him, you don't get used to the idea that he's dead just overnight.
hate dont-hate socs
They shouldn't hate each other . . . I don't hate the Socs any more . . . they shouldn't hate . . .
real scared
Dally was so real he scared me.
writing ideas imagination
I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.