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
challenges dreams fears modern
It's really about the challenges, dreams and fears of contemporary, modern women.
lines attraction-and-repulsion repulsion
There is a thin line between attraction and repulsion
column knew since
Since I had to write every week, I knew the column had to be about something I know.
characters either themselves women
I think that they're characters who women either are themselves or are their friends.
besides club clubs good great people
That's what's great about life, ... You don't have to keep doing things you did in your 30s. Besides it's not really a good look being in a club when you're 46 years old. The people in the clubs could be your children.
books-and-reading five four jessica lived sarah series tv wrote
You could say I lived the life, I wrote the book, and then it was made into a TV series starring Sarah Jessica Parker. (The character) would have been me about four or five years ago.
fiction nature perfectly second since sit start
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.
certainly morning till
I certainly don't want to be out till 4 to 5 in the morning now -- I don't want to do that anymore,
begin certain clear fall pieces start
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.
stories
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.'
looking meet mr
They're not looking to meet Mr Big. They're looking to become Mr Big.
alter character created ego
That was a character I created -- my alter ego 10 years ago. She was like me,
man natural seems
One has to be open-minded when the right man comes along. And I know it's freaky, but this just seems like the natural thing to do.
book books-and-reading came column nobody tv women
When I first started writing the column and then the book came out, there were so many women who would come up to me and say: This is me. This is about my life, you know, and nobody has done it before. And I think that that's what they've done really successfully with the TV series, is they made women feel like it's about their lives.