The Outsiders Hinton Quotes

#1. Of higher value than any one leader is the cause.

William Safire

#2. That's why we're separated,'I said. 'It's not money, it's feeling- you don't feel anything, and we feel too violently.

S.E. Hinton

#3. I've just kind of been used to carrying movies. I look back and I'm just used to being in every single scene in a lot of pictures.

Michael Douglas

#4. The course of urban development in America is pushing the individual toward that line seperating proud independence from pitiable isolation.

Ray Oldenburg

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

S.E. Hinton

#6. 'The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality.

S.E. Hinton

#7. What is it?" He stood naked before me, his hands still on his hips.
My curiosity arose. "Why didn't you kill me?"
"Is that what you want? Because if it is, I can take care of that for
you.

Lynn Mullican

#8. Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.

Jeffery Deaver

#9. Demon mean knowledge in Greek, especially about the material world. Science means knowledge in Latin. A jurisdictional dispute is exposed, even if we look no further

Carl Sagan

#10. Don't let sleep overtake you; the world's awake within you.

Vasko Popa

#11. 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 ...

S.E. Hinton

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

S.E. Hinton

#16. [T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.

Robert Burton

#17. let's do it for Johnny

S.E. Hinton

#18. He had the cheerful demeanor of someone who has been beaten about the face all night with a sock full of porridge - only

William Ritter

#19. There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

William Osler

#20. Maybe people are younger when they sleep.

S.E. Hinton

#21. Materialism has cast man into such depths that a mighty concentration of forces is necessary to raise him again. He is subject to illnesses of the nervous system which are veritable epidemics of the life of the soul.

Rudolf Steiner

#22. Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids ... but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those kids a favor. They're just trying to give them a better life.

Jodi Picoult

#23. He was obviously one of those people who felt at home in the world-he was naturally buoyant, where Quentin felt like he had to dog-paddle constantly, exhaustingly,humiliatingly, just to get one sip of air.

Lev Grossman

#24. 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

#25. Dark waters run deep.

Dawn Kurtagich

#26. 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