214 Quotes by S. E. Hinton

I learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there.

Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.

I had it then. Soda fought for fun, Steve for hatred, Darry for pride, and Two-Bit for conformity. Why do I fight? I thought, and couldn't think of any real good reason. There isn't any real good reason for fighting except self-defense.

How a piece ends is very important to me. It's the last chance to leave an impression with the reader, the last shot at 'nailing' it. I love to write ending lines; usually, I know them first and write toward them, but if I knew how they came to me, I wouldn't tell.

He sure put things into words good.

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

...I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.

Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.

Y'all were heroes from the beginning. You just didn't 'turn' all of a sudden