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S. E. Hinton

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

S. E. Hinton, American Writer
People, Ideas
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"My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head."

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