“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
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Author detail
Susan Eloise Hinton published her first book, *The Outsiders*, at the age of 17. Her publisher suggested she publish under her initials instead of her feminine so that book reviewers would not dismiss the novel because its author was female, and she continued to publish using her initials because of the success of her first book and because she did not want to be famous. In 1979, Hinton was the first recipient of the Margaret Edwards Award, presented by the Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of the ALA for work which depicts the experiences and emotions of teenagers and is widely accepted by young people. That same year, The Outsiders was named best novel by the New York Times in 1979. Hinton currently resides in Tulsa, Oklahoma with her husband.
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“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
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“If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.”
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“Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.”
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“It's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too.”
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“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 an...”
“Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.”
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“'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.”
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“If you enjoy reading something, read it.”
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“The thing is, the Tulsa experience that I wrote about in 'The Outsiders' is closer to the universal experience than it would be if I wrote it from L.A. or New York. It's an everyman story.”
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“My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.”
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“My goal from being a child was to have a happy home life.”
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“I grew up with my cousins, who were as close as brothers, and frankly, I didn't like what girls were expected to do. I liked horseback riding, playing football, going to rodeos. I wanted to...”
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“I just felt being part of my peer group so strongly. I was immersed in teen culture, but not taken in by it.”
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“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.”
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“I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.”
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“My husband and I get along great. We're both introverts, and it's hard to make new friends.”
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“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.”
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“Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to read other books. I am all for it.”
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“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,...”
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“I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.”
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