S.e. hinton why she wrote the outsiders

I loved watching that. Rob used to call me Mom half the time. Who are you closest to now? Last time I saw him was in Vancouver. I visit Vancouver twice a year to visit the Supernatural set, so I was up there for that. And Tim Hunter was directing a Wayward Pines episode that Matt was in, so I went up a little early and we had this little reunion on the set.

I should quit calling you that. So he got me a set visit, which I immediately jumped on. I had a really good time, and I got an invitation to come back. Have you ever done a cameo? Oh, yeah! I got killed in the diner by the evil Leviathan Sam and Dean. When the Leviathan Sam and Dean were wiping everybody out, Jared [Padalecki] jumps up on a table and cocks a gun at me and starts yelling.

He just thought it was hysterical that he scared me. I was the nurse there, and I was a typing teacher in Tex. Talk about an obsolete profession nowadays! And I was a hooker in Rumble Fish.

But I always played a professional. Something you said last time I interviewed you has stuck with me. I mean, like, when I was 16, that was the year I was doing my major work on The Outsiders. Pick it up on stands now or subscribe online at ew. Home Books S. Hinton on The Outsiders' success: 'It gave me writer's block for four years'.

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Save FB Tweet More. The Outsiders. Close this dialog window Streaming Options. Credit: Warner Bros. An essay Dale Peck wrote for the Times in does a great job of delineating all those influences. Many of the books and stories that Hinton mentions were originally written for adults but have since become favorites among teen-age readers. I read mostly nonfiction, as a matter of fact. I am all for it. By Jon Michaud.

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