214 Quotes by S. E. Hinton

The major influence on my writing has been my reading. When I was young, I read everything, including cereal boxes and coffee labels. Reading taught me sentence structure, paragraphing, how to build a chapter. Strangely enough, it never taught me spelling.

I advise writing to oneself. If you don’t want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.

You greasers have a different set of values. You’re more emotional. We’re sophisticated-cool to the point of not feeling anything. Nothing is real with us.

Need a haircut, greaser?

I made up my mind that I’d get out of that place and I did... I learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there. If you want to go somewhere in life, you just have to work till you make it.

Some of us never cry at al. Like Dally and Two-Bit and Tim Shepard – they forgot how at an early age.

But I was still lying and I knew it. I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.

Maybe people are younger when they sleep.

Writer’s were supposed to be a litte crazy.