Top 100 Hinton Quotes
#1. Like many authors, I caught the writing bug during my teenage years. I don't remember the exact day or year, but I remember that reading S.E. Hinton's 'The Outsiders' sparked my interest in writing.
Ally Carter
#2. I would welcome a friendship with Lynne Hinton. I would welcome an invitation to sit down at her table, but mostly I would welcome her next book.
Maya Angelou
#3. I was writing with different people in Nashville - whoever I could. Eddie Hinton came on the scene about 1963, and about four years later we wrote a ton of songs together. I drifted around, but Eddie and I had some cuts through the '60s and '70s. I went on the road with Kris Kristofferson in 1970.
Donnie Fritts
#4. It's really not a stretch. The checks and balances are the same. The drums are the executive branch. The jazz orchestra is the legislative branch. Logic and reason are like jazz solos. The bass player is the judicial branch. One our greatest ever is Milt Hinton, and his nickname is "The Judge."
Wynton Marsalis
#5. Slavery is the parent of ignorance, and ignorance begets a whole brood of follies and vices; and every one of these is inevitably hostile to literary culture.
Hinton Rowan Helper
#6. Sixteen years on the streets and you can learn a lot. But all the wrong things, not the things you want to learn. Sixteen years on the streets and you see a lot. But all the wrong sights, not the things you want to see.
S.E. Hinton
#7. Stay gold Ponyboy. Stay gold.
--Johnny quoting Robert Frost
S.E. Hinton
#8. Nothing can wear you out like caring about people
S.E. Hinton
#9. why do you like fights Darry~Ponyboy
He just likes to show off his muscles~Sodapop
S.E. Hinton
#10. Greaser ... greaser ... greaser ... " Steve singsonged. "O victim of environment, underprivileged, rotten, no-count hood!
S.E. Hinton
#11. I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.
S.E. Hinton
#12. There was a silent moment when everything held its breath, and then the sun rose.
S.E. Hinton
#13. Mace, you never read Smoky the Cowhorse,did you?
No.
Well,ol' Smoky, he had somebad things happen to him,had the heart knocked clean out of him.But he hung on and came out of it okay.I've been bashed up pretty good,Mason, but I'm going to make it.
S.E. Hinton
#14. My goal from being a child was to have a happy home life.
S.E. Hinton
#15. Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.
S.E. Hinton
#16. In the daytime you aren't afraid of anything.
S.E. Hinton
#17. I liked my books and clouds and sunsets.
S.E. Hinton
#18. If you enjoy reading something, read it.
S.E. Hinton
#19. I really couldn't see what the Socs would have to sweat about - good grades, good cars, good girls, madras and Mustangs and Corvairs - Man, I thought, if I had worries like that I'd consider myself lucky.
I know better now.
S.E. Hinton
#20. But Dally, heaters kill people!
Ya' kill 'em with switchblades to, don'tcha?
S.E. Hinton
#22. You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don't think he knows.
S.E. Hinton
#23. But if you used to walls all that air can give you the creeps
S.E. Hinton
#24. You get tough like me and you don't get hurt. You look out for yourself and nothin' can touch you ...
S.E. Hinton
#25. All my life I wanted somebody who knew more than I did to tell me the truth.
S.E. Hinton
#26. My boyfriend suggested I write two pages a day. He wouldn't take me out if I hadn't done my two pages. That's how I wrote my second novel.
S.E. Hinton
#27. You know what the crummiest feeling you can have is? To hate the person you love the best in the world.
S.E. Hinton
#28. Well, you're real brave, real stupid, or real lucky.
S.E. Hinton
#29. I learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there.
S.E. Hinton
#30. I have seen purer liqors, better segars, finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier women courtesans here in San Francisco than in any other place I have ever visited.
Hinton Rowan Helper
#31. If you are single and don't want to be. The only regret is staying that way.
Suzette R. Hinton
#32. They weren't looking for a fight, they were looking to fit in.
S.E. Hinton
#33. The thing is, the Tulsa experience that I wrote about in 'The Outsiders' is closer to the universal experience than it would be if I wrote it from L.A. or New York. It's an everyman story.
S.E. Hinton
#34. As soon as you have good mechanical technology, you can make things like backhoes that can dig holes in the road. But of course a backhoe can knock your head off. But you don't want to not develop a backhoe because it can knock your head off, that would be regarded as silly.
Geoffrey Hinton
#35. Asleep, he looked a lot younger than going-on-seventeen, but I had noticed that Johnny looked younger when he was asleep too, so I figured everyone did. Maybe people are younger when they are asleep.
S.E. Hinton
#36. Dharma companions filling mountains, a sangha forms of itself: chanting, sitting ch'an stillness. Looking out from distant city walls, people see only white clouds.
David Hinton
#37. The Urban Literate Southern California Sub-Group of the Early Atomic Period has not yet produced a distinct body of folk music of its own.
Sam Hinton
#38. 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.
S.E. Hinton
#39. Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to read other books. I am all for it.
S.E. Hinton
#40. Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold . . . The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny died. You read about people looking
S.E. Hinton
#41. Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.
S.E. Hinton
#42. He'll have to do without me, Jamie thought, not looking back. And then clearly, as if he'd been told, he knew Grenville /could/ do without him. There was somewhere else he had to go now, somewhere else he had to be.
S.E. Hinton
#43. the person in this picture is really me.
S.E. Hinton
#44. If you're going to lead people, you've got to have somewhere to go.
S.E. Hinton
#45. Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
S.E. Hinton
#46. Writer's were supposed to be a litte crazy
S.E. Hinton
#47. Once I found a sticky-note that said someone was placed on a "petal stool". If you ask me, that sounds a lot better than a pedestal. If I had to choose something to be placed on, I would choose the petal stool.
Shane Hinton
#50. It was cliche, he knew, but he meant it classic.
S.E. Hinton
#51. It's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too.
S.E. Hinton
#52. I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.
S.E. Hinton
#53. Things were rough all over, but it was better that way. That way you could tell the other guy was human too.
S.E. Hinton
#54. I don't know why I go to school unless for kicks, oh well might as well do dissect a frog.
S.E. Hinton
#55. We gotta do it for Johnny...Let's do it for Johnny!
S.E. Hinton
#56. It ain't fair that we have all the rough breaks!
S.E. Hinton
#58. Maybe people are younger when they sleep.
S.E. Hinton
#59. Don't get so focused on doing it right that you forget to do it.
Suzette R. Hinton
#60. The shade of difference that separates a greaser from a hood wasn't present in Dally.
S.E. Hinton
#61. In deep learning, the algorithms we use now are versions of the algorithms we were developing in the 1980s, the 1990s. People were very optimistic about them, but it turns out they didn't work too well.
Geoffrey Hinton
#62. Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too.
S.E. Hinton
#63. It goes so fast, he thought, they don't tell you that, how fast it goes ...
S.E. Hinton
#64. It seemed funny to me that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.
S.E. Hinton
#65. In science, you can say things that seem crazy, but in the long run they can turn out to be right. We can get really good evidence, and in the end the community will come around.
Geoffrey Hinton
#66. You greasers have a different set of values. You're more emotional. We're sophisticated-cool to the point of not feeling anything. Nothing is real with us.
S.E. Hinton
#67. Live long, Love hard, Learn to embrace life, Laugh out loud, and Leap into heaven dancing
Daisy Hinton Davis
#68. Yeah," I said. "And I'm gonna look just like him."
The black cat paused and looked me over.
"No you ain't baby. That cat is a prince, man. He is royalty in exile. You ain't never gonna look like that.
S.E. Hinton
#69. Juvenile delinquent, you're no good! Darry shouted.
S.E. Hinton
#70. I am a greaser. I am a JD and a hood. I blacken the name of our fair city. I beat up people. I rob gas stations. I am a menace to society. Man do I have fun!
S.E. Hinton
#71. What's the safest thing to be when one is met by a gang of social outcasts in an alley? ... No, another social outcast!
S.E. Hinton
#73. He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.
S.E. Hinton
#74. 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.
S.E. Hinton
#76. Some people go, some people stay. I'm staying.
S.E. Hinton
#77. Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
S.E. Hinton
#79. I refuse to say anything beyond five years because I don't think we can see much beyond five years.
Geoffrey Hinton
#80. You look at these past predictions like there's only a market in the world for five computers [as allegedly said by IBM founder Thomas Watson] and you realize it's not a good idea to predict too far into the future.
Geoffrey Hinton
#81. If you don't have a place to live or money or whatever, you ask yourself, "What am I gonna do?" But my best friend stuck by me for 30 years. And he had already told me "Whenever you get out, you come live with me and my wife."
Anthony Ray Hinton
#82. We're almost as close as brothers; when you grow up in a tight-knit neighborhood like ours you get to know each other real well.
S.E. Hinton
#83. Soda was glaring at him. Leave my kid brother alone, you hear? It ain't his fault he likes to go to the movies, and it ain't his fault the Socs like to jump us, and if he had been carrying a blade it would have been a good excuse to cut him to ribbons.
S.E. Hinton
#84. 'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
S.E. Hinton
#85. I made up my mind that I'd get out of that place and I did ... I 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.
S.E. Hinton
#86. 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.
S.E. Hinton
#87. you don't just stop living because you lose someone. You don't quit!
S.E. Hinton
#88. Don't you know a rumble ain't a rumble unless I'm in it?
S.E. Hinton
#89. If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocery store, looking to see what to buy for dinner.
S.E. Hinton
#90. Slavery tolerates no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of opinion.
Hinton Rowan Helper
#92. 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.
S.E. Hinton
#93. I really do like listening to stuff that's happened to other people. I guess that's why I like to read.
S.E. Hinton
#95. California can and does furnish the best bad things that are obtainable in America.
Hinton Rowan Helper
#96. Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold...
- Johnny to Ponyboy
S.E. Hinton
#97. When I see a movie with someone it's kind of uncomfortable.
S.E. Hinton
#99. I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.
S.E. Hinton
#100. We couldn't get along without him. We needed Johnny as much as he needed the gang. And for the same reason.
S.E. Hinton
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