Quotes by Cecily von Ziegesar

Cecily von Ziegesar

…forgiving is not the same as forgetting.

Forget

Forgiving

‘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.

Girl

Two

Years

And who am I? That’s one secret I’ll never tell…You know you love me. XOXO, Gossip Girl

Girl

Gossip

Secret

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.

Book

Children

Teenager

Blair liked to think of herself as a hopeless romantic in the style of old movie actresses like Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe. She was always coming up with plot devices for the movie she was starring in at the moment, the movie that was her life.

Hopeless Romantic

Style

Thinking

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.

Class

Girl

Messed Up

Destiny is for losers. It’s just a lame excuse for letting things happen to you instead of making them happen.

Destiny

Lame

Loser

Face it, you have to be sort of an egomaniac to write something down and think that anyone is going to want to read it.

Thinking

Want

Writing

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.”

Fun

Girl

Lying

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.

Character

Manhattan

Writing

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Babe

Bass

Beach

Beautiful

Believe

Book

Boys

Character

Children

Class

College

Color

Crazy

Destiny

Envy

Fall

Faster

Feels

Forget

Forgiving

Fun

Garbage Cans

Girl

Gossip

Gossip Girl

Growing Up

Helping

High School

Holiday

Hopeless Romantic

Kind

Lame

Legs

Long

Loser

Love You

Lying

Manhattan

Matter

Mean

Men

Messed Up

Mother

New York

Nice

People

Phones

Physics

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Quotes by Cecily von Ziegesar

Cecily von Ziegesar

…forgiving is not the same as forgetting.

‘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.

And who am I? That’s one secret I’ll never tell…You know you love me. XOXO, Gossip Girl

Blair liked to think of herself as a hopeless romantic in the style of old movie actresses like Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe. She was always coming up with plot devices for the movie she was starring in at the moment, the movie that was her life.

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.

Destiny is for losers. It’s just a lame excuse for letting things happen to you instead of making them happen.

Face it, you have to be sort of an egomaniac to write something down and think that anyone is going to want to read it.

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.”

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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