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• 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

  Girl, Fun, Lying

  "'Gossip Girl' Creator Reveals Reality of 'Young Adult'" by Cecily von Ziegesar, www.mtv.com. December 12, 2011.

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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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• 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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• When I meet other parents and they're more 'mumsy' than I am - you know, I don't want to be 'mumsy,' but I'm like, 'Were you always like that or... what happened?

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  Parent, Want, Happened

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• I guess I was popular in high school.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  School, High School

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• 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, Mean, Thinking

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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 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 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 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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  Writing, Character, Manhattan

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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.

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  Senior, Girl, Fun

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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.

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  Girl, Smart, Character

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• 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.

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  Girl, Class, Messed Up

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• 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.

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  Years, Negative, Done

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

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• '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.

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  Girl, Years, Two

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• Who has time to make up stories when the truth is so much more interesting?

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  Interesting, Stories, Truth Is

  Cecily Von Ziegesar (2012). “Gossip Girl: It Had To Be You”, p.63, Hachette UK

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• You want to fly in jets, and I just want to fly" -Baby Carlyle

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  Baby, Want, Jet

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• You know you love me. Xoxo, GossipGirl.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Girl, Gossip Girl, Gossip

  "Fictional character: Gossip Girl". TV Series "Gossip Girl" ("Pilot", 2007), www.imdb.com. 2007-2012.

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• I feel something vibrating and I really hope it's your phone." Serana told Dan, who blushed.

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  Phones, Feels

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• I usually wouldn't be this close to you without a tetnus shot.

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  Shots

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• So Mr.Bass why do you think you should become an Usher?" asked the interviewer.Chuck smiled. Because I'm Chuck Bass.

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  Thinking, Bass, Should

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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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• Oh, don't be a spoilsport. Gossip is sexy. Gossip is good. Not everybody does it, but everybody should!

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  Sexy, Gossip, Doe

  Cecily Von Ziegesar (2003). “Gossip Girl”, p.112, A&C Black

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• oh my god, she couldn't help thinking. I have hairy legs and I'm going to die alone.

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  Thinking, Legs, Helping

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• the garbage cans and mailboxes on the sidewalk would stay the same, but the people would be just a beautiful blur of motion.

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  Beautiful, Garbage Cans, People

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