Candace Bushnell Quotes

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

Writing, Become, Place

Even as a kid, I never liked breakfast. I just don't like to eat then. I like to get up and work. I think sticking a whole bunch of carbohydrates in your stomach in the morning is probably the worst way to begin the day.
Candace Bushnell

Work, Morning, Whole

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

Remember, Made, Since

Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've wrestled with my whole life. I think it's a journey worth taking, really finding out who you are and what you do well.
Candace Bushnell

Life, Big, Whole

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

Old, Few, Actually

I always thought that there was a really good chance that I wasn't going to get married.
Candace Bushnell

Good, Thought, Chance

I first arrived in New York in 1979. I was 19 and I was going to University in Houston, Texas, and I decided that I knew what I wanted to do and it was time to go and do it. I literally ran away from college.
Candace Bushnell

Time, Away, Wanted

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

Find, Winter, House

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

Long, Difficult, Tell

I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels.
Candace Bushnell

Poetry, Sometimes, Wanted

I love Chicago. I lived there briefly for three months and kept a boat under one of those space-age buildings. It was very Jetsons.
Candace Bushnell

Love, Three, Lived

I love things that are old and glittery, that come with layers of glamour and past lives.
Candace Bushnell

Love, Past, Old

I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
Candace Bushnell

Time, Gossip, Sometimes

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

Writing, After, Working

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

Writing, Short, Write

I think a young woman's relationship with her father is really important.
Candace Bushnell

Father, Important, Woman

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

Happy, Thought, Loved

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

Sex, Through, Wanted

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 book for a series she was doing.
Candace Bushnell

Children, Book, Short

I wish I was one of those persnickety types who buys guidebooks and studies them, but I don't have the inclination or time. I'm more of a 'get on the plane, arrive at the destination and see what happens' kind of traveler.
Candace Bushnell

Time, Wish, Happens

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

Forward, Writing, Young

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

Single, Looking, Anybody

I'm the kind of person who would have liked to have lived at the Plaza. I love crystal chandeliers and gold leaf, velvets and mirrors, Oriental rugs and marble.
Candace Bushnell

Love, Person, Lived

I've always been fascinated by young women who come to New York. The characters in 'Lipstick Jungle' were once young women who came to New York and we see their early experiences through flashbacks.
Candace Bushnell

Women, Through, Young

I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.
Candace Bushnell

Nature, Writing, Down

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: December 1, 1959

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