Candace Bushnell
Candace Bushnell
Candace Bushnellis an American novelist and television producer. She wrote a column for The New York Observerthat was adapted into the bestselling Sex and the City anthology. The book was the basis for the HBO hit series Sex and the Cityand two subsequent movies...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth1 December 1958
CityGlastonbury, CT
CountryUnited States of America
powerful book reading
When I was 8, I was reading a book in which it was snowing. When I looked outside, I expected there to be snow on the ground. I thought, "This is the most powerful thing I can do! I'm going to be a writer."
country writing house
Well I actually do have a country house in Connecticut with a population of 3,000. Like, how small is that? I spend a lot of time there - I write up there. So I kind of have the best of both worlds and I love going up there.
ability
Why do I keep evading my work? Is it because I’m afraid of being confronted by my lack of abilities?
growing-up crazy thinking
I didn't want it to be this way." "Yes, you did," she said, "because it is." "I just want to be with someone normal," he said. "I just want to have a normal life." "Excuse me," she said. "You're a little crazy," he said. "You're too old to act the way you do. You've got to grow up. You've got to take care of yourdelf. I'm afraid for you. You can't think that people are going to take care of you all the time.
play may sense-of-humor
The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor.
girl real book
Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike. But people do say that we sound alike. Sarah Jessica is an adorable girl and she is very funny.
jeans sweaters pairs
I actually don't shop very much. I have a tendency to rotate a few pairs of ripped jeans and an old cashmere sweater.
balls demand haunting
A glittering disco ball spins from the ceiling, but the music is something I've never heard, discordant and haunting and insistent, the kind of music that demands you dance.
skills barns pottery
My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.
real men trying
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.
matter
There's so many things that mattered so much in my 20s and 30s that don't matter now.
husband children careers
The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you could have a husband, and you could have children.
cute numbers guy
Rule number one: Why is it that the one time a cute guy talks to you, you have a friend who's in crisis?
new-york real support
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.