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

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

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My goal from being a child was to have a happy home life.

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If you enjoy reading something, read it.

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I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.

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I always try to write the best I can.

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

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My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.

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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.

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Since I am first of all a character writer, that character's emotions are as vivid to me as my own. I always begin with an emotion after I have established a character in my mind. I feel what they feel. I guess that is why it comes across so strongly.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: July 22nd, 1948

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