“When I was 16, 17, 18 years old, I felt like I had seen it all and don...” — Cecily von Ziegesar Quote

“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.”

“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.”

“But I've always been fascinated with that prettiest-girl-in-the-class person that I never was, getting inside her head and showing that she's just as tormented and messed up as everybody else.”

“I went to Colby College in Waterville, ME and did picture it when I was writing 'Cum Laude.' So many of the physical details were included, like the loop where people jogged. The story of the chapel is also borrowed from Colby... but the students and cast of characters are fictional.”

“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.”

“One thing about our show, 'Vanderpump Rules,' is that no matter what it is you go through, positive or negative, you definitely end up having to relive that moment months later.”

“Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct.”

“I don't see why black should be a negative and it's not negative. The people perpetrating that particular thought are wrong.”

“We made happy sounds because we were upset... just trying to make a positive situation out of a negative one.”

“I'm not a negative person.”

“I haven't had to deal with many negative things in my career. Now, I see, 'You suck. You lost to Tito.'”