Cecily von Ziegesar Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• I'll tell you what I think. I think you need to stay indoors reading more books!

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Cecily von Ziegesar (2003). “Gossip Girl 3: All I Want is Everything”, p.136, A&C Black

• I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don't swear, they tell their mothers everything.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Mother, Book, Character

• Back in my days as a children's book editor, my superiors caught on to the fact that teenagers were using the Internet to gossip about each other, and thought it might be nifty to develop a series of books about an anonymous high-school blogger who gossips about her classmates. The concept was passed on to me.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Children, Teenager, Book

• 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.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Girl, New York, Book

• I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn't really like the books that I was reading, so I decided that I would write a book about something I'd want to read if I was 16. It turned into a Cinderella story... I developed a proposal and the characters of 'Gossip Girl' for my job.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Girl, Jobs, Book

• I'm always saying that my books are not autobiographical because they're not. I can't choose any one scene and say, 'Oh, this is exactly what happened to me!' I just use little snippets of things as a starting point!

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Book, Use, Littles

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

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