S.E. Hinton

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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I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.

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

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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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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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Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one.

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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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