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• My biggest fear in writing 'Gossip Girl' was that the characters would sound like stereotypical rich, air-headed heiresses. These were my friends. They were smart and multifaceted. They had interests and passions. They wanted to become lawyers and doctors and writers and filmmakers.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Girl, Smart, Character

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• 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!

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  Book, Use, Littles

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

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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 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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• 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 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.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Girl, Hate, Writing

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

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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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• Smart, truly hilarious, and entirely sympathetic. Like a hot bubble bath or a holiday at the beach, you won't want it to end.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Beach, Smart, Holiday

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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.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Girl, Growing Up, Thinking

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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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