If you enjoy reading something, read it. S. E. Hinton More Quotes by S. E. Hinton More Quotes From S. E. Hinton 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 oilhairboys Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold. S. E. Hinton socsoutsidersgold I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight. S. E. Hinton nameshelping I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male. S. E. Hinton close-friendsmales I guess I just couldn't see standing there -- alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being -- one second, and dead the next. It really bothered me. Death by violence isn't the same as dying any other way, accident or disease or old age. It just ain't the same. S. E. Hinton breathingtalkingthinking ...I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted. S. E. Hinton outsiderswould-bewanted We had played a kid's version of gang fighting called "Civil War," and then later we had got in on the real thing, we fought with chains and we fought barefisted and we fought Socs and we fought other grease gangs. It was a normal childhood. S. E. Hinton realwarkids I didn't think much about that statement then. But later I would-I still do. I think about it and think about it until I think I'm going crazy. S. E. Hinton stillscrazythinking If you want to be a writer, I have two pieces of advice. One is to be a reader. I think that's one of the most important parts of learning to write. The other piece of advice is 'Just do it!' Don't think about it, don't agonize, sit down and write. S. E. Hinton writingtwothinking They used to be buddies, I thought, they used to be friends, and now they hate each other because one has to work for a living and the other comes from the West Side. They shouldn't hate each other. S. E. Hinton hatewestsides Your mother is not crazy. Neither, contrary to popular belief, is your brother. He is merely miscast in a play. He would have made the perfect knight in a different century, or a very good pagan prince in a time of heroes. He was born in the wrong era, on the wrong side of the river, with the ability to do anything and finding nothing he wants to do. S. E. Hinton crazybrothermother Writer's were supposed to be a litte crazy S. E. Hinton supposed-to-becrazy ...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience. S. E. Hinton regret 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 masonscleanheart Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane. S. E. Hinton innateinsane why do you like fights Darry~Ponyboy He just likes to show off his muscles~Sodapop S. E. Hinton likesfightingshows Okay greasers,you've had it. S. E. Hinton okay I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him. S. E. Hinton narratorswritingthinking let's do it for Johnny S. E. Hinton outsiders I think that The Outsiders was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it. S. E. Hinton outsiderswritingthinking
