Cecily Brooke von Ziegesar is an American author best known for the young adult Gossip Girl series of novels. source
My biggest fear in writing 'Gossip Girl' was that the characters would sound...
I decided that, if I were to write a teen series, I'd want to set it in a...
Back in my days as a children's book editor, my superiors caught on to the...
The girls show more skin these days, but I think, generally, they behave the...
I have no sense of what I should or shouldn't talk about. I just blather....
I remember, in my senior year, one of my teachers taking me aside and saying:...
I guess I was popular in high school.
Recently my publicist asked me for a college photo, and I realize how chubby...
Gossip Girl' came out in rapid succession over two years, so the endings...
But I've always been fascinated with that prettiest-girl-in-the-class person...
I feel like 'Gossip Girl' isn't really 'Gossip Girl' anymore when they're...
I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn't really...
My high school wasn't a big public school; it was tiny. There were 36 girls...
Even now, I change my style and clothes from one day to the next, but during...
I went to Colby College in Waterville, ME and did picture it when I was...
Face it, you have to be sort of an egomaniac to write something down and...
I avoid the young adult section altogether if possible, although it's...
I tend to stare at people and memorize what they're saying and how they say it.
I'm just a crazy person. I mean, I really didn't have any trouble coming up...
When I meet other parents and they're more 'mumsy' than I am - you know, I...
I'd never really babysat. I feel like I'm Blair, or 'Gossip Girl.' A...
I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters...
When I was 16, 17, 18 years old, I felt like I had seen it all and done it...
I certainly didn't say while writing 'Gossip Girl,' 'Oh this is going to be...
I'm always saying that my books are not autobiographical because they're not....
When I did see the story of Persephone, I was really drawn to it. Persephone, the goddess of spring, was kept from Olympus by her mother, Demeter, because Demeter was very worried that the gods of Olympus would do something terrible to her.
American author
