Cecily von Ziegesar

“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.”

“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!”

“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.”

“You said she's a senior? Babe we're ALL crazy.”

“'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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“...don't act like I didn't for you.I did. Hard. And for a long time.So please, forgive me if now that we're over, I'm exhausted.”

“I guess I was popular in high school.”

“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?'”

“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.”

“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.”

“That's the problem with best friends. Sometimes they know you better than you know yourself.”

“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.”