I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him. S. E. Hinton More Quotes by S. E. Hinton More Quotes From S. E. Hinton Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff. S. E. Hinton influence stuff trying The difference is that was then, this is now. S. E. Hinton differences ...people get hurt in rumbles, maybe killed. I'm sick of it because it doesn't do any good. You can't win...even if you whip us. You'll still be where you were before- at the bottom. And we'll still be the lucky ones with all the breaks. So it doesn't do any good, the fighting and the killing. It doesn't prove a thing. S. E. Hinton fighting hurt winning 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 sight life years Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies. S. E. Hinton ruins book Greasers will still be greasers and Socs will still be Socs. Sometimes I think it's the ones in the middle that are really the lucky stiffs. S. E. Hinton lucky sometimes thinking Suddenly it wasn't only a personal thing to me. I could picture hundreds and hundreds of boys living on the wrong sides of cities, boys with black eyes who jumped at their own shadows. Hundreds of boys who maybe watched sunsets and looked at stars and ached for something better. I could see boys going down under street lights because they were mean and tough and hated the world, and it was too late to tell them that there was still good in it, and they wouldn't believe you if you did. S. E. Hinton sunset stars believe the person in this picture is really me. S. E. Hinton persons I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money. S. E. Hinton imagination writing ideas 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 listening stuff people There isn't any real good reason for fighting except self-defense. S. E. Hinton fighting real self You know a guy a longtime, and I mean really know him, you don't get used to the idea that he's dead just overnight. S. E. Hinton guy mean ideas He sure put things into words good. S. E. Hinton He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday. S. E. Hinton someday desperate violent ... Hey, I didn't know you didn't like baloney." I went cold. "I don't like it. I never liked it." Soda just looked at me. "You used to eat it. That's why you wouldn't eat anything while you were sick. You kept saying you didn't like baloney, no matter what it was we were trying to get you to eat." "I don't like it," I repeated. S. E. Hinton hey sick trying Y'all were heroes from the beginning. You just didn't 'turn' all of a sudden S. E. Hinton turns hero 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 hell mind want I gotta cut smoking or I'll never make track next year S. E. Hinton track cutting years Rat race is the perfect name for it,' she said. 'We're always going and going and going, and never asking where. Did you ever hear of having more than you wanted? So that you couldn't want anything else and then started looking for something else to want? It seems like we're always searching for something to satisfy is, and never finding it. Maybe if we could lose our cool we would. S. E. Hinton race names perfect It ain't fair that we have all the rough breaks! S. E. Hinton fairs rough break
