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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.

My goal from being a child was to have a happy home life.

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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.

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Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.

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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.

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I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

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I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.

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When I see a movie with someone it's kind of uncomfortable.

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I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.

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When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.

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My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.

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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.

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My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.

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If you enjoy reading something, read it.

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How a piece ends is very important to me. It's the last chance to leave an impression with the reader, the last shot at 'nailing' it. I love to write ending lines; usually, I know them first and write toward them, but if I knew how they came to me, I wouldn't tell.

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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.

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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.

S. E. Hinton

Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.

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