"Back in my days as a children's book……" — Cecily von Ziegesar
"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."
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Cecily von Ziegesar
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59 Quotes by Cecily von Ziegesar
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The girls show more skin these days, but I think, generally, they behave the same way as when I was…
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When I was 16, 17, 18 years old, I felt like I had seen it all and done it all,…
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I'd never really babysat. I feel like I'm Blair, or 'Gossip Girl.' A teenager, basically - and now suddenly I'm…
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I avoid the young adult section altogether if possible, although it's sometimes fun to catch a girl lying on the…
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I guess I was popular in high school.
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I'm just a crazy person. I mean, I really didn't have any trouble coming up with weird ways for people…
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I decided that, if I were to write a teen series, I'd want to set it in a place that…
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I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don't swear, they…
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Even now, I change my style and clothes from one day to the next, but during high school I blended…
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Face it, you have to be sort of an egomaniac to write something down and think that anyone is going…
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