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
Candace Bushnell quotes about
sex cities trying
Sex and the City was about looking for Mr Big and trying to find him.
summer winter house
I have a house in the Connecticut countryside where you'll always find me, summer or winter.
passion sometimes
Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.
beautiful girl love-you
A guy who is crazily, madly in love with you. A guy who sees how incredible and amazing you are, even though you’re not the cheerleader or even close to the prettiest girl in the school. A guy who thinks you’re beautiful, just the way you are.
single new-york home
I think that one of the things that has changed the perception is that there are so many more single people. In New York City, it's 47 percent. When you have that many people who are single, they have a bigger voice and they're more willing to speak and say, 'We're not miserable, we're not sitting at home waiting for Mr. or Ms. Right, we're having a good time.' And I think single people have better friendships.
patents bigs leather
Patent leather wedges-they were big when I went to prom!
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.
twenties willing what-you-love
Happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.
ability
Why do I keep evading my work? Is it because I’m afraid of being confronted by my lack of abilities?
clothes might today
. . . She was obsessed with clothes and status, how she never gave a thought to being responsible for her own actions, or even what she might do for anyone else-making her the ultimate example of all that was wrong and misguided about young women today.
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."
sex thinking cities
The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
skills barns pottery
My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.
good-relationship parent great-marriage
My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.