Top 100 Hinton's 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.
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#3. 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.
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#4. When I see a movie with someone it's kind of uncomfortable.
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#5. Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold...
- Johnny to Ponyboy
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#6. I really do like listening to stuff that's happened to other people. I guess that's why I like to read.
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#7. 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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#9. 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.
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#10. Don't you know a rumble ain't a rumble unless I'm in it?
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#11. you don't just stop living because you lose someone. You don't quit!
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#12. 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.
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#13. 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.
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#14. 'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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#15. 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.
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#16. 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.
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#17. 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.
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#19. Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
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#20. Some people go, some people stay. I'm staying.
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#21. 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.
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#22. He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.
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#24. What's the safest thing to be when one is met by a gang of social outcasts in an alley? ... No, another social outcast!
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#25. 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!
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#26. Juvenile delinquent, you're no good! Darry shouted.
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#27. In our neighborhood it's rare to find a kid who doesn't drink once in a while. But Soda never touches a drop - he doesn't need to. He gets drunk on just plain living.
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#29. I was desperate for something to read that dealt realistically with teenage life, and I thought others might be, too.
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#31. I'm what you might call a Pepsi addict.
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#32. I guess he had listened to more beefs and more problems from more people than any of us. A guy that'll really listen to you, listen and care about what you're saying, is something rare.
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#33. I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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#34. If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.
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#35. I'm not saying that either Socs or greasers are better; that's just the way things are.
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#36. 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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#37. I can lie so easily that it spooks me sometimes - Soda says it comes form reading so much. But then, Two-Bit lias all the time too, and he never opens a book.
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#38. Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane.
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#39. You can't say, 'This is just a stage' when its important to people what they're feeling. Maybe he'll outgrow it someday but right now it's important.
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#40. 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.
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#41. Greaser ' didn't have anything to do with it. My buddy over there wouldn't have done it. Maybe you would have done the same thing, maybe a friend of yours wouldn't have. It's the individual.
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#42. Some are going, some are staying....i'm in between.
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#43. I find it to be easier to write from a man's point of view.
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#46. I could write and help a lot of kids, or teach and help a few and go nuts.
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#47. Darry took a step toward me, but I backed away. "Don't touch me," I said. My heart was pounding in slow thumps, throbbing at the side of my head, and I wondered if everyone else could hear it. Maybe that's why they're all looking at me, I thought, they can hear my heart beating ...
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#48. I could never understand people being scared of things they didn't know nothing about.
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#49. 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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#51. We couldn't get along without him. We needed Johnny as much as he needed the gang. And for the same reason.
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#52. I liked my books and clouds and sunsets.
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#53. They weren't looking for a fight, they were looking to fit in.
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#54. I learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there.
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#55. Well, you're real brave, real stupid, or real lucky.
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#56. You know what the crummiest feeling you can have is? To hate the person you love the best in the world.
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#57. 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.
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#58. All my life I wanted somebody who knew more than I did to tell me the truth.
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#59. You get tough like me and you don't get hurt. You look out for yourself and nothin' can touch you ...
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#60. But if you used to walls all that air can give you the creeps
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#61. 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.
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#62. But Dally, heaters kill people!
Ya' kill 'em with switchblades to, don'tcha?
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#63. 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.
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#64. If you enjoy reading something, read it.
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#65. 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.
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#66. In the daytime you aren't afraid of anything.
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#67. 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.
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#68. My goal from being a child was to have a happy home life.
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#69. 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.
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#70. There was a silent moment when everything held its breath, and then the sun rose.
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#71. I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.
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#72. Greaser ... greaser ... greaser ... " Steve singsonged. "O victim of environment, underprivileged, rotten, no-count hood!
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#73. why do you like fights Darry~Ponyboy
He just likes to show off his muscles~Sodapop
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#74. Nothing can wear you out like caring about people
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#75. Stay gold Ponyboy. Stay gold.
--Johnny quoting Robert Frost
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#76. 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.
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#77. It's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too.
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#78. 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.
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#79. It goes so fast, he thought, they don't tell you that, how fast it goes ...
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#80. Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too.
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#81. The shade of difference that separates a greaser from a hood wasn't present in Dally.
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#82. Maybe people are younger when they sleep.
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#84. It ain't fair that we have all the rough breaks!
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#85. We gotta do it for Johnny...Let's do it for Johnny!
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#86. I don't know why I go to school unless for kicks, oh well might as well do dissect a frog.
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#87. Things were rough all over, but it was better that way. That way you could tell the other guy was human too.
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#88. I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.
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#89. 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.
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#90. It was cliche, he knew, but he meant it classic.
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#91. Writer's were supposed to be a litte crazy
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#92. Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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#93. If you're going to lead people, you've got to have somewhere to go.
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#94. the person in this picture is really me.
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#95. 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.
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#96. Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.
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#97. Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold . . . The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny died. You read about people looking
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#98. 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.
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#99. 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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#100. 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.
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