...people get hurt in rumbles, maybe killed. I'm sick of it because it doesn't do any good. You can't win...even if you whip us. You'll still be where you were before- at the bottom. And we'll still be the lucky ones with all the breaks. So it doesn't do any good, the fighting and the killing. It doesn't prove a thing.
S. E. HintonAll of a sudden it felt like people were peering over my shoulder, wondering what I would write next. I was blocked for four years.
S. E. HintonI never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is some aspect of yourself.
S. E. Hinton