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Cecily von Ziegesar Quotes
Cecily von Ziegesar Quotes
Cecily von Ziegesar
American
Author
Born:
Jun 27
,
1970
Girl
Gossip
Me
People
School
You
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My high school wasn't a big public school; it was tiny. There were 36 girls in my graduating class. We were a big group of girls that by the time senior year came along couldn't wait to get away from school fast enough but we loved each other. It's really fun to see the girls at reunions now.
Cecily von Ziegesar
Time
Class
School
Wait
Girl
Big
Year
Group
Other
Enough
High
See
High School
Along
Came
Were
Get
Senior
Senior Year
Tiny
Graduating
Loved
Public
Really
Public School
Fun
Each
Now
Away
Fast
By The Time
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.
Cecily von Ziegesar
Old
Negative
Seen
Everything
Kind
About
Had
Like
Felt
Years
Done
Really
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
Good
Lesson
Too
Everything
Books
Tell
Characters
Tried
Always
Mothers
Where
Swear
Teach
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!
Cecily von Ziegesar
Crazy
People
Trouble
Think
Ways
Weird
Coming
Up
Very
Person
Die
Any
Just
Mean
Crazy Person
Really
Twisted
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.'
Cecily von Ziegesar
Sometimes
Gossip
Girl
Reading
Young
Lying
Section
Possible
Adult
Catch
Although
Altogether
Gossip Girl
Young Adult
Avoid
Fun
Floor
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.
Cecily von Ziegesar
You
Face
Down
Think
Something
Write
Read
Sort
Egomaniac
Going
Want
Anyone
I went to Colby College in Waterville, ME and did picture it when I was writing 'Cum Laude.' So many of the physical details were included, like the loop where people jogged. The story of the chapel is also borrowed from Colby... but the students and cast of characters are fictional.
Cecily von Ziegesar
Me
People
Writing
College
Picture
Chapel
Characters
Details
Physical
Borrowed
Cast
Students
Like
Also
Loop
Were
Did
Where
Fictional
Story
Many
Included
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.
Cecily von Ziegesar
Day
Change
People
School
Style
Clothes
Think
Guess
Way
One Day
Characters
High
High School
About
Write
Blended
Array
Lot
Next
Even
Even Now
Now
Why
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
Character
School
Gossip
College
Girl
Worlds
Else
Books
City
Brown
Reluctant
Feel
New
Like
Sort
Yale
Because
Gossip Girl
Go
Off
York
Just
Just As Much
New York
New York City
Anymore
Anyone
Anyone Else
Them
Much
Really
Separate
Show
NYU
Away
'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.
Cecily von Ziegesar
You
Gossip
Wait
Girl
Out
Rapid
Had
Over
Gossip Girl
Always
Came
Years
Endings
Suspenseful
Next
Succession
Two
Recently my publicist asked me for a college photo, and I realize how chubby I looked. I know this sounds totally shallow, but my advice is don't fall prey to the freshmen fifteen!
Cecily von Ziegesar
Me
College
Advice
Fall
Chubby
Photo
Totally
Shallow
Prey
Know
Looked
How
Sounds
Freshmen
Fifteen
Realize
Asked
Publicist
Recently
I guess I was popular in high school.
Cecily von Ziegesar
School
Guess
High
High School
Popular
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
Skin
Think
Way
More
Generally
Days
Up
Behave
Same
Show
Growing
Growing Up
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
Me
Book
Gossip
Internet
Thought
Other
Teenagers
Back
Books
About
Classmates
Fact
Develop
Days
Concept
Anonymous
Gossips
Editor
Passed
Caught
Were
Children
Might
Who
Using
Series
Each
Her
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
Writing
Fear
Smart
Gossip
Girl
Doctors
Become
Rich
Characters
Would
Lawyers
Writers
Had
Stereotypical
Like
Gossip Girl
Sound
Were
Passions
Friends
Wanted
Biggest
Interests
Multifaceted
Filmmakers
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