Quotes by Candace Bushnell

About Candace Bushnell:

Candace Bushnell is an American novelist and television producer. She wrote a column for The New York Observer (1994–96) that was adapted into the bestselling Sex and the City anthology. The book was the basis for the HBO hit series Sex and the City (1998–2004) and two subsequent movies.
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My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.'

Candace Bushnell

'Lipstick Jungle' was on the air for 20 episodes - I loved 'Lipstick Jungle.'

Candace Bushnell

New York is a city where people are ambitious. They want things.

Candace Bushnell

I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.

Candace Bushnell

Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.

Candace Bushnell

I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.

Candace Bushnell

Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.

Candace Bushnell

The fact that a man is open to being with an older woman suggests that he doesn't give a hang what other people think of him. More likely, he's confident, open-minded and willing to make his own rules.

Candace Bushnell

What I have yet to see is a real woman choose a younger man because he spent six hours a day at the gym trying to sculpt his abs.

Candace Bushnell

I actually don't shop very much. I have a tendency to rotate a few pairs of ripped jeans and an old cashmere sweater.

Candace Bushnell

As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.

Candace Bushnell

I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.

Candace Bushnell

I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a little children's book and sent it to the editor-in-chief of the children's division of Simon and Schuster and she asked me to write a little children's ...

Candace Bushnell

I think when I was 12, I started reading Evelyn Waugh, and I loved Evelyn Waugh so much, and I thought: 'This is how the world really is. If I could be Evelyn Waugh, then I would be happy.'

Candace Bushnell

There's so many things that mattered so much in my 20s and 30s that don't matter now.

Candace Bushnell

Sometimes I want to be on 'The Real Housewives of New York.' I want to remind them to figure out how to get along and support each other.

Candace Bushnell

I'm really enjoying being single. I'm not even looking to meet anybody, which is so freeing.

Candace Bushnell

I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so the stories that I would do were precursors to 'Sex and the City.'

Candace Bushnell

I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'

Candace Bushnell

I have a house in the Connecticut countryside where you'll always find me, summer or winter.

Candace Bushnell

She didn't want to have anything to do with the party. She was tired of feeling like she didn't fit in, but she didn't want to go home, either, because she was a tired of being lonely and she was a little drunk.

Candace Bushnell

Author Bio

  • NameCandace Bushnell
  • DescriptionAmerican author
  • BornDecember 1, 1958
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter
  • WorksCarrie Bradshaw