I feel that there's a lot of would-be guardians of the culture who think that high-minded literary purpose and the life that gets chronicled in the gossip columns, that these two things are incompatible.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Gossip is more popular than literature.
I think gossip and scandal is something from Western culture that has pervaded the rest of the world.
The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel.
Gossip is essentially storytelling: storytelling about people whom we know.
That's always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about?
My 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.
Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.
I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.
People love gossip. It's the biggest thing that keeps the entertainment industry going.
All literature is gossip.