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.

Asleep, he looked a lot younger than going-on-seventeen, but I had noticed that Johnny looked younger when he was asleep too, so I figured everyone did. Maybe people are younger when they are asleep.

You know a guy a longtime, and I mean really know him, you don't get used to the idea that he's dead just overnight.

Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.

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

My boyfriend suggested I write two pages a day. He wouldn't take me out if I hadn't done my two pages. That's how I wrote my second novel.

I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.