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
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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.
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We've proved we can play with people, but we need to learn how to finish the game. That's the next step we need to take.
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Erin always puts that pass right where it needs to be. That was perfect.
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We're always coming away from shows and learning something new, and we always listen and learn.
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We doubled our attendance yesterday from Christmas Day. I think people are still arriving and that it is going to keep getting busier.
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I grew up with my cousins, who were as close as brothers, and frankly, I didn't like what girls were expected to do. I liked horseback riding, playing football, going to rodeos. I wanted to be in jeans all the time, and I couldn't figure out why I was supposed to conform to a certain standard, so I didn't.
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I was hoping we wouldn't have to catch him, but his knee is holding up fine. He's always done a good job back there. He's had a couple of passed balls, but that's from not being back there the last two years. He's thrown some guys out on the bases.
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Since I am first of all a character writer, that character's emotions are as vivid to me as my own. I always begin with an emotion after I have established a character in my mind. I feel what they feel. I guess that is why it comes across so strongly.
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More people thought I was strange because I was a teenage novelist, not because I was from Oklahoma. That's where I got the looks like I was from the zoo.
We're just going to go out there and see what happens.
I find it to be easier to write from a man's point of view.
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I always try to write the best I can.
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I just felt being part of my peer group so strongly. I was immersed in teen culture, but not taken in by it.
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My goal from being a child was to have a happy home life.