Famous Quotes

"I decided that, if I were to write a teen series, I'd want to set it in a place that was familiar to me - Manhattan, where I'd grown up - and I'd model the characters on myself and my friends."

Cecily von Ziegesar on Teen

More quotes about Teen

• "It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

  e. e. cummings on Teen

• "The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up."

  John C. Maxwell on Teen

• "As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too."

  Johnny Depp on Teen

• "As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you."

  Fran Lebowitz on Teen

• "We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public."

  Bryan White on Teen

More quotes by Cecily von Ziegesar

• "I certainly didn't say while writing 'Gossip Girl,' 'Oh this is going to be big!' It was really like, 'Oh god, everyone's gong to hate these people! They're so bratty!' But I actually think what is so appealing about them is the humor in them."

• "I'd never really babysat. I feel like I'm Blair, or 'Gossip Girl.' A teenager, basically - and now suddenly I'm a mom?"