I just felt being part of my peer group so strongly. I was immersed in teen culture, but not taken in by it.
Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
When I was in high school, the genders were so separate from each other. If you weren't 'dating' somebody, you couldn't just be friends with somebody.
Asleep, he looked a lot younger than going-on-seventeen, but I had noticed that Johnny looked younger when he was asleep too, so I figured everyone did. Maybe people are younger when they are asleep.
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.
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.
You know a guy a longtime, and I mean really know him, you don't get used to the idea that he's dead just overnight.