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.
From S. E. Hinton
When I was young, all the books were about a Mary Jane and the football player and the prom and ending up with the quiet guy and making your mom happy.
When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.
I just felt being part of my peer group so strongly. I was immersed in teen culture, but not taken in by it.
My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.
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.
More people thought I was strange because I was a teenage novelist, not because I was from Oklahoma. That's where I got the looks like I was from the zoo.
I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.
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