Cecily von Ziegesar Quotes - Page 2

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• Even now, I change my style and clothes from one day to the next, but during high school I blended in. I think a lot of people are that way. I guess that's why I can write about an array of characters.

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  Writing, School, Character

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• I'd never really babysat. I feel like I'm Blair, or 'Gossip Girl.' A teenager, basically - and now suddenly I'm a mom?

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  Girl, Mom, Teenager

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• But I've always been fascinated with that prettiest-girl-in-the-class person that I never was, getting inside her head and showing that she's just as tormented and messed up as everybody else.

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  Girl, Class, Messed Up

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• I remember, in my senior year, one of my teachers taking me aside and saying: 'You look really tired.' This was when I was being a bad kid and she knew that something was wrong.

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  Senior, Teacher, Tired

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• I avoid the young adult section altogether if possible, although it's sometimes fun to catch a girl lying on the floor, reading "Gossip Girl."

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  Girl, Fun, Lying

  "'Gossip Girl' Creator Reveals Reality of 'Young Adult'" by Cecily von Ziegesar, www.mtv.com. December 12, 2011.

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• I'm just a crazy person. I mean, I really didn't have any trouble coming up with weird ways for people to die. I think I'm just very twisted!

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  Crazy, Mean, Thinking

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• I decided that, if I were to write a teen series, I'd want to set it in a place that was familiar to me - Manhattan, where I'd grown up - and I'd model the characters on myself and my friends.

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  Writing, Character, Manhattan

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• I tend to stare at people and memorize what they're saying and how they say it.

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  People, Staring

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• I certainly didn't say while writing 'Gossip Girl,' 'Oh this is going to be big!' It was really like, 'Oh god, everyone's gong to hate these people! They're so bratty!' But I actually think what is so appealing about them is the humor in them.

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  Girl, Hate, Writing

  "An Interview with Gossip Girl's Author". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. July 26, 2010.

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• I feel like 'Gossip Girl' isn't really 'Gossip Girl' anymore when they're away at school because they don't go to NYU; they go to, like, Yale and Brown. New York City is just as much a character as anyone else in the books, and I was really sort of reluctant to show them off in their separate college worlds.

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  Girl, New York, Book

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• I have no sense of what I should or shouldn't talk about. I just blather. Which is why it's fun to write 'Gossip Girl.' I do tend to just talk about anything.

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  Girl, Fun, Writing

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• When I was 16, 17, 18 years old, I felt like I had seen it all and done it all, and I was really kind of negative about everything.

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  Years, Negative, Done

  "An Interview with Gossip Girl's Author". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. July 26, 2010.

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• The girls show more skin these days, but I think, generally, they behave the same way as when I was growing up.

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  Girl, Growing Up, Thinking

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• Oh, don't be a spoilsport. Gossip is sexy. Gossip is good. Not everybody does it, but everybody should!

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  Sexy, Gossip, Doe

  Cecily Von Ziegesar (2003). “Gossip Girl”, p.112, A&C Black

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• You know when you see a gorgeous boy on the street and you say to your friend, "Look at him!" and then your friend makes a face like, ugly? We all have such totally varied tastes that someone is going to look at you and think, yum-yum dee-lish, no matter what you think you look like. You just have to learn to see what they see.

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  Thinking, Boys, Matter

  Cecily von Ziegesar (2008). “Gossip Girl #4: Because I'm Worth it: A Gossip Girl Novel”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• So Mr.Bass why do you think you should become an Usher?" asked the interviewer.Chuck smiled. Because I'm Chuck Bass.

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  Thinking, Bass, Should

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• I usually wouldn't be this close to you without a tetnus shot.

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  Shots

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• I feel something vibrating and I really hope it's your phone." Serana told Dan, who blushed.

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  Phones, Feels

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• You know you love me. Xoxo, GossipGirl.

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  Girl, Gossip Girl, Gossip

  "Fictional character: Gossip Girl". TV Series "Gossip Girl" ("Pilot", 2007), www.imdb.com. 2007-2012.

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• You want to fly in jets, and I just want to fly" -Baby Carlyle

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  Baby, Want, Jet

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• Who has time to make up stories when the truth is so much more interesting?

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  Interesting, Stories, Truth Is

  Cecily Von Ziegesar (2012). “Gossip Girl: It Had To Be You”, p.63, Hachette UK

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• 'Gossip Girl' came out in rapid succession over two years, so the endings always had to be suspenseful so that you couldn't wait for the next one.

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  Girl, Years, Two

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• oh my god, she couldn't help thinking. I have hairy legs and I'm going to die alone.

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  Thinking, Legs, Helping

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• But she'd wanted him there and there he was. A lamb ready for slaughter.

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  Lambs, Slaughter, Ready

  Cecily von Ziegesar (2008). “Gossip Girl 2: You Know You Love Me”, p.198, A&C Black

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• It really kind of sucked to be close to someone for so long and then suddenly not be anything anymore.

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  Long, Kind

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