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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.

~Cecily Von Ziegesar

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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.

~Cecily Von Ziegesar

Topics: About Anything Fun Girl Gossip Gossip Girl Just No Sense Sense Should Talk Tend Which Why Write

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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

Topics: Behave Days Generally Girl Growing Growing Up More Same Show Skin Think Up Way I Think

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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.

~Cecily Von Ziegesar

Topics: Characters Decided Familiar Friends Grown Manhattan Me Model Myself Place Series Set Teen Up Want Were Where Write

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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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: June 27th, 1970

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