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.

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.

It really kind of sucked to be close to someone for so long and then suddenly not be anything anymore.

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.

oh my god, she couldn't help thinking. I have hairy legs and I'm going to die alone.

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

I don't eat chicken abortions!