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

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My boyfriend suggested I write two pages a day. He wouldn't take me out if I hadn't done my two pages. That's how I wrote my second novel.

- S. E. Hinton

Collection: WritingCopy Quote

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

Collection: ThinkingCopy Quote

I'm a good judge of my own work.

- S. E. Hinton

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let's do it for Johnny

- S. E. Hinton

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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

Collection: WritingCopy Quote

I had it then. Soda fought for fun, Steve for hatred, Darry for pride, and Two-Bit for conformity. Why do I fight? I thought, and couldn’t think of any real good reason. There isn’t any real good reason for fighting except self-defense.

- S. E. Hinton

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