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HAYAKAWA In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or... S. I. HAYAKAWA You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're us... S. I. HAYAKAWA Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, an... S. I. HAYAKAWA In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will... S. I. HAYAKAWA So I will say it with relish. Give me a hamburger but hold the lawsuit. S. I. HAYAKAWA When I was in high school, the genders were so separate from each other. If you weren't 'dat... S. E. HINTON The thing is, the Tulsa experience that I wrote about in 'The Outsiders' is closer to the un... S. E. HINTON Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the secon... S. E. HINTON I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight. S. E. HINTON Since I am first of all a character writer, that character's emotions are as vivid to me as my o... S. E. HINTON I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him. S. E. HINTON I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagina... S. E. HINTON How a piece ends is very important to me. It's the last chance to leave an impression with the r... S. E. HINTON More people thought I was strange because I was a teenage novelist, not because I was from Oklahoma.... S. E. HINTON My husband and I get along great. We're both introverts, and it's hard to make new friends. S. E. HINTON I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male. S. E. HINTON