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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.

I could write and help a lot of kids, or teach and help a few and go nuts.

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.

More people thought I was strange because I was a teenage novelist, not because I was from Oklahoma. That's where I got the looks like I was from the zoo.

I always try to write the best I can.

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.

When I see a movie with someone it's kind of uncomfortable.

I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here.

I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.

My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.

Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.

Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one.

Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.

I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.

I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.

'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.

If you enjoy reading something, read it.

I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girls' books. If you're writing for a girl, you've got most of the audience on your side anyway.

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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