I just felt being part of my peer group so strongly. I was immersed in teen culture, but not taken in by it. S. E. Hinton Read Quote
I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight. S. E. Hinton Read Quote
The Outsiders’ cast in particular was a joy to be around – sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality. S. E. Hinton Read Quote
I think that ‘The Outsiders’ was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it. S. E. Hinton Read Quote
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. S. E. Hinton Read Quote
