Cecily von Ziegesar Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• 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.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Writing, Character, Manhattan

• 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

• 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

  Writing, School, Character

• 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

• 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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