I just felt being part of my peer group so strongly. I was immersed in teen culture, but not taken in by it.
~ S. E. Hinton
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.
Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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.