I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.

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• S. E. Hinton:

  I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagin

• S. E. Hinton:

  I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.

• S. E. Hinton:

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

• S. E. Hinton:

  If you enjoy reading something, read it.

• S. E. Hinton:

  I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girl

• S. E. Hinton:

  Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because

• S. E. Hinton:

  My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.

• S. E. Hinton:

  My goal from being a child was to have a happy home life.

• S. E. Hinton:

  My husband and I get along great. We're both introverts, and it's hard to make new friends.

• S. E. Hinton:

  When I was in high school, the genders were so separate from each other. If you weren't 'dating' so