214 Quotes by S. E. Hinton

If you want to be a writer, I have two pieces of advice. One is to be a reader. I think that’s one of the most important parts of learning to write. The other piece of advice is ‘Just do it!’ Don’t think about it, don’t agonize, sit down and write.

I had to read Great Expectations for English, and that kid Pip, he reminded me of us – the way he felt marked lousy because he wasn’t a gentleman or anything, and the way that girl kept looking down on him.

California is like a beautiful wild kid on heroin, high as a kite and thinking she’s on top of the world, not knowing she’s dying, not believing it even if you show her the marks.

We needed Johnny as much as he needed the gang. And for the same reason.

It’s okay. We aren’t in the same class. Just don’t forget that some of us watch the sunset too.

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.

You can’t say, ‘This is just a stage’ when its important to people what they’re feeling. Maybe he’ll outgrow it someday but right now it’s important.

I used to be sure of things. Me, once i had all the answers. I wish i was a kid again, when i had all the answers.

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.