S. E. Hinton Quotes

Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.

nothing can wear you out like caring about people

I learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there.

Things are rough all over.

They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.

If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky

All my life I wanted somebody who knew more than I did to tell me the truth.

I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.

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.

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.

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

You know what the crummiest feeling you can have is? To hate the person you love the best in the world.

You take up for your buddies, no matter what they do. When you're a gang, you stick up for the members. If you don't stick up for them, stick together, make like brothers, it isn't a gang anymore. It's a pack. A snarling, distrustful, bickering park like the Socs in their social clubs or the street gangs in New York or the wolves in the timber.

Some are going, some are staying....i'm in between.

The difference is that was then, this is now.

Get smart and nothing can touch you.

...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.

I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.

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!

There isn't any real good reason for fighting except self-defense.

I made up my mind that I'd get out of that place and I didI 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.

Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.

I was desperate for something to read that dealt realistically with teenage life, and I thought others might be, too.

It seemed funny that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two worlds we lived in weren’t so different. We saw the same sunset.

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.