Back in my days as a children's book editor, my superiors caught on to the fact that teenagers were using the Internet to gossip about each other, and thought it might be nifty to develop a series of books about an anonymous high-school blogger who gossips about her classmates. The concept was passed on to me.
Cecily von ZiegesarDestiny is for losers. It's just a lame excuse for letting things happen to you instead of making them happen.
Cecily von ZiegesarWhen 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.
Cecily von ZiegesarMy 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