And who am I? That's one secret I'll never tell...You know you love me. XOXO, Gossip Girl

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

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.

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

Give a girl a boyfriend and she becomes a total expert on relationships

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.

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.