Top 25 Quotes by S. E. Hinton of 85 - Page 4

All of a sudden it felt like people were peering over my shoulder, wondering what I would write next. I was blocked for four years.

All of a sudden it felt like people were peering over my shoulder, wondering what I would write next. I was blocked for four years.

S. E. Hinton

Writing, Years, People

"Author Q&A: S.E. Hinton". Interview with Colleen Oakley, www.marieclaire.com. April 30, 2007.

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

Crazy, Thinking, Stills

S. E. Hinton (2012). “That Was Then, This Is Now”, p.24, Penguin

What's the safest thing to be when one is met by a gang of social outcasts in an alley? ...No, another social outcast!

S. E. Hinton

Gang, Outcast, Social

S. E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.92, Penguin

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

Thinking, Talking, Breathing

S. E. Hinton (2012). “That Was Then, This Is Now”, p.50, Penguin

... 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

Sick, Trying, Hey

S. E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.127, Penguin

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

Real, War, Kids

S. E. Hinton (2012). “That Was Then, This Is Now”, p.37, Penguin