214 Quotes by S. E. Hinton

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.

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

I never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is some aspect of yourself.

I'm a good judge of my own work.

Okay greasers,you've had it.

Rat race is the perfect name for it,' she said. 'We're always going and going and going, and never asking where. Did you ever hear of having more than you wanted? So that you couldn't want anything else and then started looking for something else to want? It seems like we're always searching for something to satisfy is, and never finding it. Maybe if we could lose our cool we would.

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.

Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.

I've been thinking about it, and that poem, that guy that wrote it, he meant you're gold when you're a kid, like green. When you're a kid everything's new, dawn. It's just when you get used to everything that it's day. Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That's gold. Keep that way, it's a good way to be.